Biden Won’t Be Bragging About This Year’s July Fourth Cookout Prices Which Rose 17 Percent
By: Jordan Boyd
June 29, 2022
The numbers are in, and it doesn’t look like President Joe Biden will be bragging about saving Americans money at this year’s Fourth of July parties.
According to a new report from the American Farm Bureau Federation, the total cost for an Independence Day BBQ is up $10 from 2021. That’s a 17 percent hike in cookout prices thanks to government-induced inflation.
In total, the cost is about $69.68 for a 10-person celebration that includes grilling essentials such as “cheeseburgers, pork chops, chicken breasts, homemade potato salad, strawberries, and ice cream.”
Remember last year’s BBQ food prices? They were slightly lower than in 2020 when parts of the country were still under government-mandated lockdown and enduring the beginning of a years-long supply-chain crisis, so President Joe Biden’s team tried to spin the inconsequential price decrease in his favor.
“The cost of a 4th of July cookout in 2021 is down $0.16 from last year,” the White House bragged in a pun-filled video posted to Twitter in 2021.
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https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/29/biden-wont-be-bragging-about-this-years-july-fourth-cookout-prices-which-rose-17-percent/
