‘Commies Gonna Commie’: Stephen Miller Posted Dozens of Tweets Saying Price Controls Cause Shortages and Famine
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Stephen Miller was uncharacteristically mum after President Donald Trump announced he was signing an executive order to reduce drug prices, in sharp contrast to his long history of lambasting price controls as “commie” — well, at least when Democrats suggest the idea.
Sunday evening, Trump posted on Truth Social — a few hours after teasing that his next post would be “one of the most important and impactful” — that he would be signing an executive order imposing a “MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY” that he claimed would reduce the prices of prescription drugs and other pharmaceutical medications “almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.”
The plan was met with skepticism from many economists, and it is likely to be challenged in court as beyond the constitutional limits of the president. Conservatives have long been hostile to efforts to impose price controls on products, including drugs, and regularly criticized such proposals when they came from the left including former Democratic presidential candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
After Trump announced his plan, social media users were quick to pull up old tweets from Miller, who currently serves as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor.
“Commies gonna commie,” wrote Miller in one August 2024 tweet highlighted by The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, among others. “The only thing price controls deliver is shortages and famine.”
A sampling of some of Miller’s past tweets, including frequently calling price controls “communist,” bashing Harris as “Comrade Kamala” or “Kamala Marx,” and predicting any such policies would lead to famine and other catastrophes:
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