“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail. Americans, 408 days later, are still waiting. What’s worse, instead things are increasingly more expensive.New data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that electricity costs have risen 14.4% in Pennsylvania. It didn’t help that there was a 71% increase in natural gas prices during Trump’s first year, so of course utility bills are soaring. Have you been to the gas station lately to fill your tank? Prices are up nearly 7% in 2026. And now that Trump launched his reckless war in Iran, prices just spiked and likely will continue to climb at a faster clip, as The Associated Press reports.Because Trump and his Republican Congress let Affordable Care Act subsidies expire, Pennsylvanians who enroll in health insurance through the state’s official marketplace Pennie faced “an average price increase of 102% to remain in their plan for 2026.” Never mind the “nearly 1 in 5 enrollees were unable to keep their health plan for 2026.”“From rising electric bills to wholesale natural gas prices surging 71% in 2025, it’s clear that Donald Trump’s cost-raising economic policies have been a total disaster for Pennsylvanians,” said DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta. “Donald Trump promised to lower costs on Day One. Instead, they’ve skyrocketed.” Kenyatta pointed to Trump’s promise to lower energy costs as one glaring example. Trump claimed at a September 2024 ‘Protecting America Initiative’ roundtable in Pennsylvania that “your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half, and that’s my pledge all over the country.” Promise made, promise broken.https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/thanks-to-trump-and-his-republican-enablers-in-congress-the-affordability-crisis-in-pennsylvania-worsens/
BUCKS COUNTY BEACON?NO ONE CARES WHAT YOUR THIRD TIER NEWSPAPER SAYS ALL THE REAL JOURNALISTS WERE ABLE TO MOVE TO ACTUAL CITIES YOURE JUST THE DREGS LEFT IN HICKSBURGEGGS ARE STILL CHEAPER
>>1494177>$1700 paid per family because of tariffs over the last year>Gas prices skyrocketing bc of a Neocon adventure in the Middle East>Housing prices continue to skyrocket while the GOP does nothing>Still waiting on Donald's replacement for ObamacareBut hey, at least I'm saving $3 a month on eggs.
>>1494181We were going to get a tariff check but the supreme court cucked usStill the govt has like 150 billion more dollars now and it all came from foreigners so it was a huge win win
>>1494181>Eat the eggs you peasant!!! This is what you morons voted for!!!
>>1494184Wow, 150 billionThat's almost .03 percent of the annual budget
>>1494184>Still the govt has like 150 billion more dollars now and it all came from foreigners so it was a huge win winyeah you're gonna need to give all that illegally taxed money back, btw.
>>1494192Good luck getting it back lmao it's already gone
>>1494191>But but but.... uh... its money we dun der saved
>>1494186>$8.03 dec 2024>$0.47 Feb 2026>https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-usTrump did manage to totally end The Biden Egg Crisis tho. Biden guaranteed that even eggs were unaffordable
>>1494207Eggs are peasant food
>>1494177Gas prices have exploded because of trump new endless war in the middle east
>>1494207Eggs were high because of an outbreak of bird flu. That's over.
>>1494220it's his job to lie though
>>1494220Thank you Mr Trump for helping all our sick birds
>>1494176https://x.com/BackupJeffx/status/2029058542733283405I am SO FUCKING GLAD that the chosen people of galilee are safe. even if I pay $80/loaf of bread, it's worth it as long as Bibi has his cut!!!!!!!!!!>>1494177Trump's own words aren't actually real btw
>>1494228Fucking got to be kidding me.No, I'm not ok going bankrupt to support the yids. Kikes can go drop fucking dead. They suck
>>1494230should've voted Democrat instead of the party of pedophiles that protect Israel
When's the recession starting?
>>1494230Triple Trumpers deserve to be drafted
>>1494230Are you ready to admit you got played yet?
>>1494207Ah Great Biden Egg Crisis. Truly the event that historians of the 21st century will remember
>>1494236>Mug eggsWhy aren't they pissed about the outrageous beef prices now?
>>1494241That's not Trump's fault
>>1494176>buckscountybeacon.comThread discarded.
>>1494242But eggs were Bidens fault?Nonono, all price movements during a presidents time in office is officially THEIR FAULT
>>1494247Egg prices were caused by a viral outbreakBeef prices were caused by shitty trade policy.
>>1494248So Trumps fault.Lets stay focused on the future, Trumps asking congress to give Israel $50,000,000,000 dollars AND is appointing a jew as fed chair.How bad is the hyper-inflation going to be in a couple months?
>>1494247Abortion rights were lost under Biden
>>1494176Affordability was going to worsen regardless of who was elected to the presidency. The root of affordability is the US's slipping imperial hold on the third world, as there is a broad global shift in favor of China. China gets this favor because they offer better terms in their loan agreements, terms that the US can literally not afford to offer.Sure, Harris may not have had the same level of volatility, but she would have still imposed tariffs and engaged in the same wars, just with more decorum and congressional support, and with much more dull media coverage. This is exactly how Biden operated.The only purpose trump serves is to scare the American public with the scent of overt, violent fascism. This will get them to comply and "vote blue no matter who" to re-elect the rational "carrot and stick" fascist democrat party. So long as America is an imperial power, it's fascists all the way down.So you can call this "trump's affordability crisis" all you want, but as usual it misses the point.
>>1494260My man you cannot claim Kamala would have done Trump Tariffs. Not even close. If Trump would just take off his global tariff everything would instantly become 15% cheaper
>>1494260> Affordability was going to worsen regardless of who was elected to the presidency. Bullshit. Cutting taxes for billionaires, cutting benefits for the poor and DUMPING money into Israel is bullshit only the GOP would do.Fuck your lies. KYS
>>1494255What?
>>1494279Can't make it anymore clear than I already have. We lost abortion rights under Biden.
>>1494236What else are they going to write about his presidency? The dementia speeches? Jews refused to acknowledge them even when they were happening kek
>>1494255>>1494279>>1494281I love this interaction. The "leftist discourse is pretending to not understand therefore making discourse impossible" image becomes stronger and stronger every single day
>>1494269>Affordability was going to worsen regardless of who was elected to the presidencyHe's right though, that's just how disastrous the Biden term was.Nearly 10% inflation, Broski.Things became unaffordable at a quicker rate than at any point in the last 40 yearsThe 40 year spike in unaffordability that began during bidens term was disasterous, Broseph.It doesn't matter who came after that sort of thing, the after effects would have persisted.At least we're back down to inflation rates from late 2019, early 2020 now, a point when inflation was generally considerdtwell under control
