Harris focuses on high food prices as inflation remains a major issue in the presidential campaign

WASHINGTON– US Vice President Kamala Harris is taking aim at high food prices as her campaign team prepares an economic policy speech to be delivered in North Carolina on Friday in which she promises to push for a federal ban on food price gouging.

Harris particularly highlights rising meat prices, which she believes are responsible for a large part of rising grocery bills.

Inflation has hit its lowest level in more than three years, year-on-year. But many people in the U.S. are struggling with food prices that are still 21 percent higher than they were three years ago. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called inflation the main failure of the Biden administration and its energy policy.

In addition to drug costs, Harris is also focusing on food prices, which were the focus of an event with President Joe Biden in Maryland on Thursday.

They announce that drug price negotiations will reduce the list prices of ten of the most popular and expensive Medicare drugs by hundreds of dollars – in some cases thousands.

Biden has made his own efforts to curb rising food prices, including establishing a “Competition Council” to reduce costs by increasing competition within the meat industry, to show that his administration is committed to fighting inflation.