“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
>>1494176>“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail.He did.
>>1494291>The 40 year spike in unaffordability that began during bidens term was disasterous, Broseph.Look, you're just supposed to forget hoe a defacto Democrat who enacted 100% Democrat policies fucked up the economy.Those who CANNOT remember history are doomed to vote Democrat.
>>1494286What?
The election tourists are using their usual playbook of blaming everyone but trump for the economy trump is crashing.Do not engage with their lies.
>>1494325>An actual ESLIt get thrown around a lot, but in this case...LOL
>>1494346Israel and greedy jews that control wall street and all the PE firms buying up everything are also to blame. It takes a team of schemers to destroy America, Trump is but one puppet.
>>1494349NtaHow got autocorrected to hoe and I suspect de facto is outside your lexicon?I sincerely don't see why this was anymore esl than any of the other shit that goes one here.
>>1494392Hey look I said one instead of on Lmao I was the real esl all along
It turns out printing money does little except make things worse. Not sure why they couldn't just buy a bunch of t bills, lower the money supply, and in effect lower government deficit.
>>1494395Then they wouldn't be able to spend, baby, spend.
>>1494184>Came from foreignersPlease, explain how you think that happened. You paid that price in everything you bought that came from overseas.
>>1494404Foreign imports tariffed, which means more direct government revenue.Consumers pay more to offset the costs of those tarrifs (sales tax etc compounds the impact of the tariffs on govt revenues).Trump writes each and every (legal) American a check from those government revenues. He has our back just like he did during covi-ACK The Supreme Court said he couldnt give us the money.So now, the corporations will sue the government trying to get their tariff money back. But you can't sue the grocery store. So corporations end up with 2 money and you end up with 0 money.Trump tried to give us 1 money but he got checked and balanced.
>>1494404Whoa look at the Dow. Whys it plummeting? I thought gas prices weren't going to spike...
>>1494436War dips are the easiest to buy. War never lasts forever. You might buy too early, you might buy too late, but you always make money. Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics, and people who like free money study geopolitics.
>>1494440They're talking deploying troops on the ground in leaked memos. Sounds like this is another forever war
>>1494461Which war lasted forever?The longer wars become part of the new normal, economically. Just plan on petroleum and every product that requires it making less money, and military industrial stocks making more money. These might seem like small margins to be able to pinpoint but they really aren't. And if you're scared you can hire a professional to make your moves for you. War is free money and will remain so for savvy investors
>>1494464Well we still have soldiers in Korea and that war ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty. That's a 75+ year war
>>1494207I remember the Great Egg Crisis of 2024one day eggs were $2, next week they were basically luxury goods behind glass like jewelry, grandma hiding cartons in the freezer like it’s the apocalypseomelettes became a status symbolhistorians will never understand how breakfast became a flex.Honestly I've never seen one mans dementia cause so much havoc
>>1494466Definitely no money to be made in South korea then, eh?You sound so stupid lmao
>>1494470You will see it again. Trumps dementia is causing gas prices to skyrocket
>>1494263No, prices would stay up so companies can report record profits, pleasing the investors.Prove me wrong.
>>1494743And they're getting a tariff refund which they won't pass back to the customers so Trump basically just gave them an excuse to price gouge. Don't expect prices to drop to pre-tariff levels.
>>1494743But prices didn't rise 15%. They rose due to Biden EOs that fucked with US supply lines. And the prices don't come back down because that's how it works (because money is fake and gay and so is the economy)
>>1494743You made the claim, anon, you have to provide proof.>>1494756If you don’t think tariffs increase prices then I seriously don’t know what to tell you.
>>1494757tell him his name: esl shill
>>1494757>>1494756If we measure "price increases" as CPI, like rational people who are paid to analyze the economy do, 2025 had a lower rate of "price increase" than every year under bidenThe "tariffs caused price increases" is technically true but the actual price in goods increased slower than the previous 4 years without tariffs.Maybe without tariffs the 2.4% inflation in 2025 would have been as good as Trump's 1.8% inflation from 2019Idk, but at the very least even in spite of the tariffs, trump was still able to lower the effects of the affordability crisis caused by 4 years of Bidenflation, and even with the tariffs he decreased the speed at which prices increase by 0.5% that yearLooking at the facts and numbers, the affordability crisis was caused much more during Bidens term than Trump's https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator/consumer-price-index-1913-
>>1494764And the promise that Trump would lower prices, I would like them to show a president in the last 40 years who was able to induce deflation and lower prices to below a prior crisis.It's unfair to Trump hold up to a standard that every single president fails, and then when that is pointed out claim whataboutism
>>1494743I concede the point and modify my original statement to the following:Trump's global tariff of 15% after the Supreme Court told him his other tariffs were illegal is the latest in a long line of examples of Trump attempting to use economic policy to affect geopolitical policy, a habit which exposes both his brilliance as a business man (albeit one born with a silver spoon all the way up his ass) and his absolute buffoonery as a leader of men. You are correct. Prices will not go back down if the tariffs poof. This fact in no way alleviates my disappointment with Trump.
>>1494764CPI is voodooThe basket is basic bitch bullshit
>>1494181Wait until the lane rates get jacked up to cover for the gas spend. Truckers are the reason why prices hit highs in 2021 and they'll be the reason they are even worse in 2026. Not only are we supposed to foot the tariffs but we'll be footing a fuel increase as well.
