{"id":301027,"date":"2026-02-25T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:24:07","slug":"live-updates-watch-as-trump-gives-state-of-the-union-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301027\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Watch as Trump gives State of the Union speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/bbc-verify.bac8ff232a.svg\" alt=\"BBC Verify\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Was Trump right about beef prices?published at 05:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p>05:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Tom Edgington<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump talked about affordability his speech, with Trump claiming his policies were rapidly ending high prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the items he listed was beef, where he said the price &#8220;is starting to come down significantly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/cpi.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the official inflation figures, external<\/a>, beef prices fell between December and January, but they remain much higher compared to 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The category \u201cbeef and veal\u201d shows that prices increased 15% in the 12 months to January 2026, but fell by 0.9% between December 2025 and January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other items which also increased in price over the past 12 months include coffee, at 18.3%, and frozen fish and seafood, 8.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall grocery prices increased 2.1% in the 12 months to January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But not everything has increased. Egg prices &#8211; which were also mentioned by the president &#8211; fell by 34.2% over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other items that have fallen in price over the same period include butter, -5%, tomatoes, -2.4%, and fresh whole chicken, -1.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Was Trump right about beef prices?published at 05:37 GMT 05:37 GMT By Tom Edgington Trump talked about affordability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-301027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}