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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Briane Nebria

Donald Trump Bragged Grocery Costs Are 'all Coming Down' but Only Egg Prices Dropped Last Month

The CPI figures Donald Trump is likely referring to do show a striking shift in one narrow category. (Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that grocery costs in the United States are 'all coming down,' crediting his administration for what he described as sharply improving household budgets, even as official data shows most food prices are still rising.

The string of similar boasts from Trump at rallies and public appearances in recent months. On 27 July in Michigan, he told supporters that 'eggs are much lower than they were when we first started,' insisting the same was true 'with everything else.'

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