Grocery prices
What families pay for groceries and other food, and what drives those prices, from farm and import costs to how food companies and grocers set them.
What they call for
DemocratsRepublicans32 new members addressed this issue (with these filters). Many call for more than one thing.
Lower food and grocery prices19Roll back tariffs that raise food prices6Ban price gouging on groceries6Lower food costs by boosting farm production and supply chains3Ban algorithmic and data-driven grocery pricing2Increase competition in the food industry and block grocery mergers2Protect and expand SNAP and other food assistance2
Lower food and grocery prices
19 members“We need a congress focused on providing health care, safer communities, and stabilizing the economy to make the price of groceries, healthcare, and housing more affordable.”View on their website ↗
“With rising costs of everyday necessities like groceries, families are having to make hard decisions about big investments like healthcare and housing. I am ready to bring bread back to the table for you and your family.”View on their website ↗
“Congress must act to address the rising cost of basic needs, such as health care, housing, child care, groceries, and utilities.”View on their website ↗
“I’m going to fight to lower healthcare and grocery costs, end the reckless war in Iran, and make sure every family in Iowa can build the life we know they deserve.”View on their website ↗
“Fighting Grocery Inflation: Strengthening food supply chains, expanding SNAP benefits, and cracking down on corporate price gouging to lower grocery costs.”View on their website ↗
“Pass a long-term Farm Bill that gives farmers and ranchers stability and helps keep food prices down”View on their website ↗
“The cost of everyday essentials keeps climbing while big corporations rake in record profits. I’ll work to lower food costs by opposing tariffs and tax policies that raise prices for consumers and hurt working families.”View on their website ↗
“Ban anti-competitive practices in the food and agricultural industry to lower input costs and in turn lower grocery costs.”View on their website ↗
“Jo will bring battle-tested leadership to fix the broken systems in DC, fight for working families, and tackle the cost of food, gas, housing, and child care.”View on their website ↗
“In Congress, Dr. Pan will fight to protect health care; to make food, housing, education and health care more affordable, not less; and to ensure all Americans have equal justice and are treated fairly by our government.”View on their website ↗
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“I want to immediately bring down the cost of gas, groceries, and health care.”View on their website ↗
“While Harding struggled to keep up with Powell and failed at defending his disastrous record and allegiance to Trump and MAGA Republicans, Denise laid out a clear plan to help working families get ahead by ending corruption in Washington and putting forth policies that will lower the costs of gas, groceries, and medicine.”View on their website ↗
“We must fight to lower the cost of housing, gas, groceries, and healthcare and stand up to stop the corruption in Washington.”View on their website ↗
“In sharp contrast to Gabe Evans, who votes with Trump and his reckless, cost-hiking agenda 100% of the time, Rutinel is running to lower health care, grocery, utility, and housing costs for Coloradans, fight for working families, and end corruption in Washington.”View on their website ↗
“In Congress, he will fight to lower costs by rolling back these crushing tariffs, making sure families can afford groceries and essentials, and ending the chaos in Washington so job growth and business investment can rebound.”View on their website ↗
“We need bipartisan problem-solving to pass laws that lower the cost of necessities— including food, gas, housing, utility costs, prescription drugs and more.”View on their website ↗
“Lower grocery costs by investing in Puerto Rico’s farmers, strengthen local food systems, and repealing the Jones Act;”View on their website ↗
“Bring prices down Keeping food on the table and lights on gets more expensive every paycheck. Whether it’s groceries, energy bills, or your rent or mortgage, the richest corporations in this country are squeezing us for everything we have. Politicians don’t do anything to fight against price gouging because they get campaign contributions from PG&E, United Health, and BlackRock to buy their silence. We all deserve to be able to pay a fair price to keep our families safe, and not a cent more.”View on their website ↗
“LOWERING THE COST OF FOOD AND IMPROVING NUTRITION FOR ALL AMERICANS”View on their website ↗
“He's authored multiple laws expanding CalFresh access and produce affordability in California, and he'll bring that same track record to Congress”View on their website ↗
“Lower the cost of food, fuel and housing”View on their website ↗
Roll back tariffs that raise food prices
6 members“Food and Groceries: Congress has to take back control of the tariff power to combat rising costs, protect consumers against predatory spread pricing, and increase American food production and strengthen our supply chains by supporting local family farms.”View on their website ↗
“I’ll vote to end the massive tariffs and Iran War driving up the price of groceries, gas, and fertilizer.”View on their website ↗
“End tariffs that are increasing the price of fuel, fertilizer, equipment, groceries, and everyday goods”View on their website ↗
“I’m focused on tackling the affordability crisis by standing against Trump’s tariffs that are driving up the cost of groceries and everyday items, by expanding access to housing that’s affordable, lowering health care costs, strengthening retirement security, and pushing back on economic policies that reward corporations while driving up prices for everyone else.”View on their website ↗
“The cost of everyday essentials keeps climbing while big corporations rake in record profits. I’ll work to lower food costs by opposing tariffs and tax policies that raise prices for consumers and hurt working families.”View on their website ↗
“Stop Tariffs and Healthcare Cuts That Drive Up Costs: Trump’s tariffs drive up the cost of everyday goods like groceries and housing. Trump said he would lower, not raise prices, but his tariffs and his hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid and healthcare credits, which families rely on, pinch families’ budgets further.”View on their website ↗
“In Congress, he will fight to lower costs by rolling back these crushing tariffs, making sure families can afford groceries and essentials, and ending the chaos in Washington so job growth and business investment can rebound.”View on their website ↗
Ban price gouging on groceries
6 members“Cracking down on corporate price gougers and their corrupt anti-competitive practices that are jacking up costs on groceries, everyday goods, and farming inputs like fertilizer and seed”View on their website ↗
“Take on corporations that are price gouging consumers at the gas pump, and at the grocery store.”View on their website ↗
“Ban AI Price Manipulation. Crack Down on Groceries and Goods Price Gouging”View on their website ↗
“I will ban AI-driven surveillance pricing on essential goods like groceries and strengthen federal enforcement against corporate price gouging so families know they’re paying a fair price.”View on their website ↗
“That’s why, when I’m in Congress, I will co-sponsor legislation that prevents companies from price gouging and aims to restore fairness and accountability. It would: Prohibit excessive price increases on essential grocery items that can’t be justified by normal market conditions; Ban “surveillance pricing,” where companies use your personal data or purchasing history to decide what price you pay; Limit the use of technology that allows prices to change constantly without transparency; and Give federal regulators real authority to investigate and enforce violations.”View on their website ↗
“Food and Groceries: Congress has to take back control of the tariff power to combat rising costs, protect consumers against predatory spread pricing, and increase American food production and strengthen our supply chains by supporting local family farms.”View on their website ↗
“Fighting Grocery Inflation: Strengthening food supply chains, expanding SNAP benefits, and cracking down on corporate price gouging to lower grocery costs.”View on their website ↗
Lower food costs by boosting farm production and supply chains
3 members“Food and Groceries: Congress has to take back control of the tariff power to combat rising costs, protect consumers against predatory spread pricing, and increase American food production and strengthen our supply chains by supporting local family farms.”View on their website ↗
“Fighting Grocery Inflation: Strengthening food supply chains, expanding SNAP benefits, and cracking down on corporate price gouging to lower grocery costs.”View on their website ↗
“Lower grocery costs by investing in Puerto Rico’s farmers, strengthen local food systems, and repealing the Jones Act;”View on their website ↗
Ban algorithmic and data-driven grocery pricing
2 members“Ban AI Price Manipulation. Crack Down on Groceries and Goods Price Gouging”View on their website ↗
“I will ban AI-driven surveillance pricing on essential goods like groceries and strengthen federal enforcement against corporate price gouging so families know they’re paying a fair price.”View on their website ↗
“That’s why, when I’m in Congress, I will co-sponsor legislation that prevents companies from price gouging and aims to restore fairness and accountability. It would: Prohibit excessive price increases on essential grocery items that can’t be justified by normal market conditions; Ban “surveillance pricing,” where companies use your personal data or purchasing history to decide what price you pay; Limit the use of technology that allows prices to change constantly without transparency; and Give federal regulators real authority to investigate and enforce violations.”View on their website ↗
Increase competition in the food industry and block grocery mergers
2 members“Cracking down on corporate price gougers and their corrupt anti-competitive practices that are jacking up costs on groceries, everyday goods, and farming inputs like fertilizer and seed”View on their website ↗
“Ban anti-competitive practices in the food and agricultural industry to lower input costs and in turn lower grocery costs.”View on their website ↗
Protect and expand SNAP and other food assistance
2 members“Fighting Grocery Inflation: Strengthening food supply chains, expanding SNAP benefits, and cracking down on corporate price gouging to lower grocery costs.”View on their website ↗
“He's authored multiple laws expanding CalFresh access and produce affordability in California, and he'll bring that same track record to Congress”View on their website ↗
Raised the issue without a specific call
8 members“Operating his family farm, Ager has experienced the impact that reckless tariffs have had on Western North Carolina farmers and the challenges that families are facing right now with increased food costs and damaging cuts to healthcare coverage.”View on their website ↗
“That same imbalance is exactly what leaves rural communities without quality healthcare or reliable infrastructure. And it's what makes it harder every month to afford food, gas, and a place to live.”View on their website ↗
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”View on their website ↗
“The federal government allows big businesses to flood our elections with unlimited dark money. It looks the other way when companies inflate prices on basic necessities like groceries to increase their profits.”View on their website ↗
“Small businesses are the backbone of Central Kentucky, and they’re getting crushed by tariffs that are just taxes on our businesses and consumers. Since this trade war started, we’ve seen retaliatory tariffs hit our markets, exports drop sharply, bourbon distillers shutter shops, and our farmers unable to sell their crops. Plus, prices continue to skyrocket, with staples like beef and coffee reaching record highs and burdening hardworking families’ grocery budgets. They’re also costing Kentucky families an extra $1300 per year, and have already been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.”View on their website ↗
“The cost of living shouldn’t force families to choose between paying the rent, putting food on the table, and giving their kids a good start. My plan would take on the biggest costs facing North Shore families, with clear goals to make childcare, housing, energy, health care, and raising a family more affordable.”View on their website ↗
“Inflation, tariffs, and economic inequality are eroding the American Dream. From housing and health care to child care and groceries, everyday prices are out of control, and government services are too slow to help when people need them most. More and more Americans feel like they don’t have a fair shot at success.”View on their website ↗
“I’m fighting for every underdog who works hard but still can’t get ahead, and for families who can’t afford groceries, child care, health care, or assisted living.”View on their website ↗
“Our economy should reward hard work, not connections or special interests. I believe in a strong floor and no ceiling: everyone should have the security to build a good life and the freedom to rise as far as their talent and hard work can take them. Families are working harder than ever but struggling to keep up with the cost of housing, childcare, healthcare, and groceries. It should not take two jobs to make ends meet or a lifetime of work to retire in dignity and stability.”View on their website ↗
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