Donald Trump has so far failed to deliver on one of his key campaign promises, and a Washington Post columnist said he's actually done the opposite of what he told voters he would do.
The president told voters he would cut inflation and bring down prices, but many of his executive orders, including a nationwide crackdown on immigration and tariffs on imported goods, might not have the impact that many of his supporters want, according to Post columnist Catherine Rampell.
"No, the opposite," Rampell told "CNN News Central." "To be fair, there is not much the president can do to bring prices down. I said this throughout the campaign every time he promised to bring prices down."
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Host Kate Bolduan interjected to say that voters clearly wanted to believe he could, and would, and Rampell agreed.
"That is true," Rampell said. "I understand that, I get it – it sucks when you go to the grocery store and eggs are expensive and peanut butter is expensive – everything. The problem is that not only is there no plan, there was never even a plan for a plan. There was actually one executive order released on Trump's first day in which he said he was going to deal with the cost of living and inflation, but it was basically ordering his underlings to come up with concepts for a plan, if you will, within 30 days. So nothing there beyond that."
"If you look at the actions he's actually taking, many of them threaten to raise prices further, so there are the threats of universal global tariffs as well as higher tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China that will raise costs for consumers," Rampell added. "We saw this happen last time when the tariffs were much more limited. At least some of those additional costs will be passed along to Americans. Beyond that, there's also his immigration policies. If he removes a large portion of the workforce that is going to strain supply chains, particularly in the industries where immigrants are more likely to be employed more like, you know, disproportionately likely to be employed. Think agriculture, food services, construction – all of these things that, again, Americans are feeling the pressure of higher prices."
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