Does Trump Know the Price of Milk?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/opinion/trump-prices-affordability-promises-inflation.html

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Does Trump Know the Price of Milk?
Nov. 21, 2025
By The Editorial Board

“From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down and make America affordable again,” Donald Trump promised Americans last summer as he ran for president. “Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down fast.”

Prices have not come down. Ten months after Mr. Trump took office, prices are still climbing. Groceries are more expensive. Electricity bills have spiked. It costs more to buy a new car. The annual rate of inflation was 3 percent in September — almost exactly the same as it was on Inauguration Day.

The president’s failure was predictable. Prices almost never fall across the entire economy. When they do, it tends to be because of a crisis, such as the Great Depression. Mr. Trump is responsible for misleading the American people. But he has not merely failed to keep an impossible promise. Mr. Trump has pursued policies, starting with tariffs, that are making the problem worse by making life in America less affordable.

One way to see the impact is to track inflation over the past year. As the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have worn off, the pace of price increases declined from an annual rate of 3 percent in January to 2.3 percent in April. Then, as Mr. Trump’s policies started to take effect, inflation rebounded to 3 percent. “In some ways, this administration could have come in and done nothing and made progress on inflation,” said Claudia Sahm, a longtime Federal Reserve economist who now works at New Century Advisors, an investment firm. “But the policies they’ve chosen have created extra costs for businesses, and businesses tend to pass on costs.”

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