Advertisement“Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half,” he said the next month in North Carolina. Overall, the Fed’s “household energy” price index increased 6.6%. AP Photo/Evan VucciTrump White House staff would not respond to HuffPost queries about Trump’s broken energy price promise. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers instead falsely stated that energy costs were coming down and attacked the policies of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden. AdvertisementTrump himself, as he does on most topics, simply lies and claims that energy costs are down, as he did during his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Source: Huffington Post February 27, 2026 15:29 UTC