Thanksgiving dinner will cost a staggering 24 percent more this year than it did before Joe Biden took office. A dinner for 10, featuring 12 traditional dishes—like turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and pumpkin pie mix—will average $58.05, according to an annual survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation. That’s up from $46.90 at the last Thanksgiving of Donald Trump’s first term. The price of a 16-pound turkey is $25.67 on average this year, up 32 percent from the pre-Bidenflation Thanksgiving of 2020. “While consumers are getting some much-needed relief after years of elevated retail prices, these grocery bills also reflect some hard conversations around the dinner table for farm and ranch families,” the American Farm Bureau said. Many prices are actually down a bit from last year, according to the Farm Bureau. The overall price of a holiday feast for 10 is down by 5 percent. But even that drop in prices is not enough to erase the financial squeeze of years of runaway prices. “Consumers are exhausted from years of inflation, and it will take more than the past two years’ improvements to ease the pain,” the Farm Bureau said. Here’s a list of the items whose prices have increased during the Biden presidency. Pumpkin Pie Mix: 22.4 percent increase. Milk, 1 Gallon: 4.2 percent increase. Carrots and Celery: 15 percent increase. Rolls: 56.4 percent increase. Pie Shells: 40 percent increase. Green Peas: 18.5 percent increase. Whipping Cream: 4 percent increase. Cubed Stuffing: 45.2 percent increase. The only items on the Farm Bureau’s Thanskgiving feast menu that have not gone up in price since four years ago are cranberries and sweet potatoes. Cranberry prices, however, were up this year compared with last year, as were prices of dinner rolls, stuffing and whipping cream. Prices for turkey, sweet potatoes, frozen peas, a vegetable tray of carrots and celery, pumpkin pie mix, pie crusts, and whole milk were down from last year. President Biden may have pardoned the White House turkeys this year but American households are still serving the stiff sentence of Bidenflation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The chair of the Democratic National Committee informed party leaders on Monday that the DNC will choose his successor in February, an election that will speak volumes about how the party wants to present itself during four more years of Donald Trump in the White House. Jaime Harrison, in a letter to members of the party’s powerful Rules & Bylaws Committee, outlined the process of how the party will elect its new chair. Harrison said in the letter that the committee will host four candidate forums — some in person and some virtually — in January, with the final election on Feb. 1 during the party’s winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. The race to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, while an insular party affair, will come days after Trump is inaugurated for a second term. Democrats' selection of a leader after Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 loss will be a key starting point as the party starts to move forward, including addressing any structural problems and determining how to oppose Trump. Members of the Rules & Bylaws Committee will meet on Dec. 12 to establish the rules for these elections, which beyond the chair position will include top party roles like vice chairs, treasurer, secretary and national finance chair. The committee will also use that meeting to decide the requirements for gaining access to the ballot for those top party roles. In 2021, candidates were required to submit a nominating statement that included signatures from 40 DNC members and that will likely be the same standard for the 2025 campaigns. “The DNC is committed to running a transparent, equitable, and impartial election for the next generation of leadership to guide the party forward,” Harrison said in a statement. “Electing the Chair and DNC officers is one of the most important responsibilities of the DNC Membership, and our staff will run an inclusive and transparent process that gives members the opportunity to get to know the candidates as they prepare to cast their votes.” Two Democrats have announced campaigns for chair: Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a vice chair of the national party, and Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor and current commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Other top Democrats are either considering a run to succeed Harrison or are being pushed by party insiders, including former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke; Michael Blake, a former vice chair of the party; Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin; Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and a former Chicago mayor; Sen. Mallory McMorrow, majority whip of the Michigan Senate, and Chuck Rocha, a longtime Democratic strategist. The next chair of the committee will be tasked with rebuilding a party demoralized by a second Trump victory. They will also oversee the party’s 2028 nominating process, a complex and contentious exercise that will make the chair central to the next presidential election. Harrison, of South Carolina, made clear in his letter to the rules committee that the four forums hosted by the party would be live streamed and the party would give grassroots Democrats across the country the ability to engage with the process through those events. He also said he intends to remain neutral during the chair election. This story has been corrected to show that McMorrow is a senator, not a representative.Court hears legal arguments in sex assault case of five hockey players
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