Vice President JD Vance said that lowering grocery prices will likely “take a little bit of time” after being pressed in a tense interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Host Margaret Brennan noted that President Donald Trump and Vance had vowed to slash grocery prices during their campaign before asking which of the 20-plus executive orders that Trump signed this past week would immediately offer Amerian consumers some relief for staggering prices.
Vance responded vaguely.
“We have done a lot, and there have been a number of executive orders that have caused, already, jobs to start coming back into our country, which is a core part of lowering prices,” he told Brennan in the interview that aired Sunday.
Without specifying which orders would decrease prices for Americans, Vance continued, “More capital investment, more job creation in our economy, is one of the things that’s going to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raise wages so that people can afford to buy the things that they need.”
“So grocery prices aren’t going to come down?” Brennan interjected, prompting Vance to dish out a rather spicy reply.
“No, Margaret, prices are going to come down, but it’s going to take a little bit of time, right? The president has been president for all of five days. I think that, in those five days, he’s accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years,” Vance insisted.
He added, “It’s been an incredible breakneck pace of activity. We’re going to work with Congress.”
Vance then touted “all of the stuff that we’ve done on energy to explore more energy reserves and to develop more energy resources [for] the United States of America,” saying this would “specifically” bring down everyday costs.
He then said that “one of the main drives of increased prices under the Biden administration” was a ”massive increase in energy prices.”
“Donald Trump has already taken multiple executive actions that are going to lower energy prices, and I do believe that means consumers are going to see lower prices at the pump and at the grocery store, but it’s going to take a little bit of time,” Vance added. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Brennan hasn’t been the only one demanding answers about Trump and Vance’s promises.
On Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other Democratic lawmakers wrote a pointed letter asking Trump why he has yet to address the cost of food despite signing multiple executive orders during his first week back in office.
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“During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president,” the letter reads. “But during your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers, including those who assaulted Capitol police officers.”
Watch a clip from Vance’s interview on “Face the Nation” below.