{"id":1053000,"date":"2025-05-24T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053000"},"modified":"2025-05-26T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:12:34","slug":"in-trumps-america-your-memorial-day-barbecue-will-cost-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-trumps-america-your-memorial-day-barbecue-will-cost-more\/","title":{"rendered":"In Trump\u2019s America, Your Memorial Day Barbecue Will Cost More\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Do you like a Memorial Day barbecue with your friends and family? Well, that just got a whole lot more expensive thanks to Donald Trump. After pledging to lower the costs of everything from bacon to hot dogs to soda, Trump is giving Americans empty grills and higher grocery bills.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udcb0 Thanks to Donald Trump\u2019s reckless economic agenda, Memorial Day barbecues will cost more than they did just a year ago.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83c\udf2d<\/strong> Hot dogs cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$4.03<\/a>, jumping 23.2% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf54 Ground beef costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$11.99<\/a>, jumping 13.6% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd64 Soda costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$9.15<\/a>, jumping 13.4% from last year\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd53 Bacon costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$7.01<\/a>, jumping 5.6% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\uddc0 American cheese costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$4.99<\/a>, jumping 4.4% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc13 Chicken thighs cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$2.59<\/a>, jumping 3.2% from last year\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf45 Ketchup costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$4.17<\/a>, jumping 2.2% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd57 Relish costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$4.81<\/a>, jumping 2.1% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd54 Potato chips cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-memorial-day-barbecue-could-be-cheaper-this-year-if-you-ditch-hot-dogs-for-this-alternative-6761bd64\">$6.61<\/a>, jumping 1.6% from last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udcc9 Unsurprisingly, Trump\u2019s expensive agenda is wildly unpopular with the American people. New polling shows a majority of Americans blame Trump\u2019s chaotic agenda for high costs and believe he isn\u2019t focused on lowering prices.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/12\/americans-economy-trump-poll\">78% of Americans<\/a> have noticed increased grocery prices over the last few months<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/navigatorresearch.org\/opposition-to-trumps-tariff-plan-has-steadily-increased\/\">67% of Americans<\/a> said Trump\u2019s tariffs were raising their costs, including 46% of Republicans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cbs-news-poll-trump-100-days-tariffs\/\">69% of Americans<\/a> thought Trump wasn\u2019t focused enough on lowering prices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consumer sentiment tumbled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-16\/us-consumer-sentiment-falls-close-to-record-low-on-inflation\">the second-lowest on record<\/a> and inflation expectations skyrocketed to multi-decade highs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like a Memorial Day barbecue with your friends and family? Well, that just got a whole lot more expensive thanks to Donald Trump. After pledging to lower the costs of everything from bacon to hot dogs to soda, Trump is giving Americans empty grills and higher grocery bills.&nbsp; \ud83d\udcb0 Thanks to Donald Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Trump\u2019s America, Your Memorial Day Barbecue Will Cost More\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-trumps-america-your-memorial-day-barbecue-will-cost-more\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-24T16:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-26T23:12:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-trumps-america-your-memorial-day-barbecue-will-cost-more\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-trumps-america-your-memorial-day-barbecue-will-cost-more\/\",\"name\":\"In Trump\u2019s America, Your Memorial Day Barbecue Will Cost More\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 - 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