House Democ­rats Scrub X Post Mock­ing Vot­ers’ Infla­tion Wor­ries After Back­lash

The man­agers of the offi­cial X account for the House Ways and Means Com­mit­tee Democ­rats quick­ly delet­ed a post on Tues­day that mocked Amer­i­cans for com­plain­ing about the econ­o­my and infla­tion.

The Democ­rats’ account repost­ed a report on shop­pers spend­ing a record amount of mon­ey on Black Fri­day. The Ways and Means Com­mit­tee com­ment­ed on the report, “And here we were think­ing y’all couldn’t afford eggs!”

This appears to have been delet­ed by Ways and Means Com­mit­tee Democ­rats. pic.twitter.com/70Ium9sDpe

— Antho­ny Adragna (@AnthonyAdragna) Decem­ber 3, 2024

Social media users blast­ed the Ways and Means Com­mit­tee Democ­rats for the post dis­miss­ing con­cerns about the econ­o­my less than a month after the par­ty was dealt a major elec­toral defeat, large­ly due to how Amer­i­cans view the econ­o­my under Pres­i­dent Joe Biden. In three years under Biden, egg prices spiked 52.6% in the U.S., Fox Busi­ness report­ed in March.

“As I said it’s built into their DNA to blame vot­ers for reject­ing them, as opposed to self reflec­tion of their mes­sage and poli­cies. They won’t change because they can’t change,” wrote polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor Stephen L. Miller.

“They nev­er learn,” said House Major­i­ty Whip Tom Emmer (R‑MN).

House Repub­li­can Clau­dia Ten­ney of New York, who sits on the Ways and Means Com­mit­tee, penned a Hump­ty Dump­ty poem crit­i­ciz­ing her Demo­c­ra­t­ic col­leagues for the post.

Hump­ty Dump­ty sat on a wall,
Egg prices soared—he couldn’t afford it all!

Ways and Means Dems tweet­ed with smiles so wide,
While the cost of eggs kept ris­ing high!

Hump­ty Dump­ty cracked in despair,
“These prices, these prices, they’re too much to bear!”

Democ­rats laugh, they don’t seem to care,
But we’re stuck pay­ing more for eggs in high-cost despair!

Around 40% of vot­ers in the 2024 elec­tion placed the econ­o­my at the top of the list of issues fac­ing the coun­try, accord­ing to AP Vote­Cast, a sur­vey of more than 110,000 vot­ers across the U.S.

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Dur­ing the cam­paign, Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump focused much of his atten­tion on address­ing infla­tion and eco­nom­ic woes under Biden and Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris, and it paid off. Accord­ing to the AP Vote­Cast sur­vey, “Those who said infla­tion was the most impor­tant fac­tor for their vote were almost twice as like­ly to sup­port Trump over Har­ris, and about 6 in 10 vot­ers who said the econ­o­my and jobs were the most impor­tant issue fac­ing the coun­try were in his camp.”