Multiple Democrat lawmakers are quietly telling allies worried about Vice President Kamala Harris’s controversial grocery price-control plan that the proposal will die in Congress, Politico revealed.
After economists pushed back on Harris’s “Soviet-style” plan to centrally administer price controls on food in her first policy-focused speech on August 16, one anonymous Democrat told the outlet that it was a “lofty goal.”
“I honestly still don’t know how this would work,” a second lawmaker said.
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According to an insider familiar with the White House, Harris’s plan does not address the inflation problem effectively.
“If we had a good tool we’d definitely have used it,” they told Politico.
The outlet interviewed six lawmakers and five aides under…
