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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8904227" data-attributes="member: 683408">“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” - Trump&nbsp;Campaigning for office a year ago, standing in front of a table loaded up with bags of flour, cartons of eggs and gallons of milk, President <a href="https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/" target="_blank">Donald Trump </a>told voters, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” Unfortunately for him – and money-strapped Americans – it hasn’t worked out that way. Nexstar employees around the country tracked a selection of grocery items over the past six months to see if prices would rise, fall or stay the same after Trump took office in January. Our observations, as well as federal data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), show grocery prices overall have remained stubbornly high and even increased slightly. The overall cost of food at home has ticked up between 0.2% and 0.4% almost every month since January, according to BLS tracking. One exception was in April 2025, when prices went down 0.1% from the month before. All those tiny increases have added up to a 3% increase in food prices year-over-year.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5441550-trump-promised-lower-grocery-prices-on-day-one-heres-what-happened/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8904227, member: 683408"] [SIZE=5]“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” - Trump[/SIZE] Campaigning for office a year ago, standing in front of a table loaded up with bags of flour, cartons of eggs and gallons of milk, President [URL='https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/']Donald Trump [/URL]told voters, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” Unfortunately for him – and money-strapped Americans – it hasn’t worked out that way. Nexstar employees around the country tracked a selection of grocery items over the past six months to see if prices would rise, fall or stay the same after Trump took office in January. Our observations, as well as federal data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), show grocery prices overall have remained stubbornly high and even increased slightly. The overall cost of food at home has ticked up between 0.2% and 0.4% almost every month since January, according to BLS tracking. One exception was in April 2025, when prices went down 0.1% from the month before. All those tiny increases have added up to a 3% increase in food prices year-over-year. [URL unfurl="true"]https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5441550-trump-promised-lower-grocery-prices-on-day-one-heres-what-happened/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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