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“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail.
Americans, 408 days later, are still waiting. What’s worse, instead things are increasingly more expensive.
New data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that electricity costs have risen 14.4% in Pennsylvania. It didn’t help that there was a 71% increase in natural gas prices during Trump’s first year, so of course utility bills are soaring.
Have you been to the gas station lately to fill your tank? Prices are up nearly 7% in 2026. And now that Trump launched his reckless war in Iran, prices just spiked and likely will continue to climb at a faster clip, as The Associated Press reports.
Because Trump and his Republican Congress let Affordable Care Act subsidies expire, Pennsylvanians who enroll in health insurance through the state’s official marketplace Pennie faced “an average price increase of 102% to remain in their plan for 2026.” Never mind the “nearly 1 in 5 enrollees were unable to keep their health plan for 2026.”
“From rising electric bills to wholesale natural gas prices surging 71% in 2025, it’s clear that Donald Trump’s cost-raising economic policies have been a total disaster for Pennsylvanians,” said DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta. “Donald Trump promised to lower costs on Day One. Instead, they’ve skyrocketed.”
Kenyatta pointed to Trump’s promise to lower energy costs as one glaring example. Trump claimed at a September 2024 ‘Protecting America Initiative’ roundtable in Pennsylvania that “your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half, and that’s my pledge all over the country.”
Promise made, promise broken.
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/thanks-to-trump-and-his-republican-enablers-in-congress-the-affordability-crisis-in-pennsylvania-worsens/
Americans, 408 days later, are still waiting. What’s worse, instead things are increasingly more expensive.
New data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that electricity costs have risen 14.4% in Pennsylvania. It didn’t help that there was a 71% increase in natural gas prices during Trump’s first year, so of course utility bills are soaring.
Have you been to the gas station lately to fill your tank? Prices are up nearly 7% in 2026. And now that Trump launched his reckless war in Iran, prices just spiked and likely will continue to climb at a faster clip, as The Associated Press reports.
Because Trump and his Republican Congress let Affordable Care Act subsidies expire, Pennsylvanians who enroll in health insurance through the state’s official marketplace Pennie faced “an average price increase of 102% to remain in their plan for 2026.” Never mind the “nearly 1 in 5 enrollees were unable to keep their health plan for 2026.”
“From rising electric bills to wholesale natural gas prices surging 71% in 2025, it’s clear that Donald Trump’s cost-raising economic policies have been a total disaster for Pennsylvanians,” said DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta. “Donald Trump promised to lower costs on Day One. Instead, they’ve skyrocketed.”
Kenyatta pointed to Trump’s promise to lower energy costs as one glaring example. Trump claimed at a September 2024 ‘Protecting America Initiative’ roundtable in Pennsylvania that “your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half, and that’s my pledge all over the country.”
Promise made, promise broken.
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/thanks-to-trump-and-his-republican-enablers-in-congress-the-affordability-crisis-in-pennsylvania-worsens/
