{"id":661284,"date":"2026-05-23T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661284\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:11:11","slug":"61-of-americans-said-they-had-to-cut-back-on-groceries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661284\/","title":{"rendered":"61% of Americans Said They Had to Cut Back on Groceries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concern about rising prices has reached a fever pitch as Americans sit down to Memorial Day barbecues across the country. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents said that they had changed their purchases from grocery stores to stay within budget in the last several months, according to polling from CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n

Another 59 percent of Americans said they had cut back on extras and entertainment.<\/p>\n

More than three quarters of Americans, including 55 percent of Republicans, said President Trump\u2019s policies had increased the cost of living in their community.<\/p>\n

Survey after survey has found that Americans are feeling growing financial uncertainty. Nearly half of all voters gave the economy the lowest rating, \u201cpoor,\u201d in the latest New York Times\/Siena poll<\/a>, up 11 percentage points since January.<\/p>\n

And economic confidence has hit a four-year low, according to Gallup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gas prices have continued to soar nationally, rising above $4.50 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club.<\/p>\n

Nearly 80 percent of voters \u2014 including a majority of Republicans \u2014 say the Trump administration is responsible for this price hike, according to polling from Fox News<\/a>. Large majorities also blamed oil companies, the war in Iran and government regulations.<\/p>\n

All in all, a solid majority of voters in the Fox poll, 57 percent, say that Mr. Trump\u2019s policies have hurt the country, up from 51 percent who said the same one year ago.<\/p>\n

The Times occasionally features polling that illustrates Americans\u2019 views on issues of the day. The numbers come from high-quality polls with a record for accuracy and rigorous methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concern about rising prices has reached a fever pitch as Americans sit down to Memorial Day barbecues across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,289396,5648,101,213281,283604,63851,25249,3479,21],"class_list":["post-661284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cost-of-living-and-affordability","tag-donald-j","tag-economy","tag-inflation-economics","tag-new-york-times-siena-college-poll","tag-polls-and-public-opinion","tag-republican-party","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}