Cost of July 4th Cookout Falls for First Time Since Biden Admin

This will be the first Fourth of July weekend in four years where prices haven’t increased.

As the Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported, 

A July 4 cookout including cheeseburgers, pork chops, chicken, potato salad, fruit, ice cream, and other picnic staples for 10 guests will cost roughly $70.92 in 2025.

While that total remains one of the highest prices ever recorded by AFBF, up significantly from the $52.80 recorded in 2019 before the Covid and Bidenflation price hikes, it is down 30 cents from the record high $71.22 bill calculated in 2024.

While not a major decrease, it’s a reversal in the trend of the highest inflation since the Carter-era.

The Biden administration was widely mocked in 2021 during their first July 4th, when they questionably claimed that a July fourth cookout would cost 16 cents cheaper than the year prior. It made no sense to brag about in the context of inheriting a zero inflation environment - and ironically happened right before Biden’s inflationary policies kicked inflation into overdrive.   

The Trump administration has been touting success after success in fighting inflation. 

All the fearmongering about high egg prices (that have since ceased as they’re down 60% since Trump took office), tariffs, USAID cuts, and more aren’t working out for the Democrats. 

As the mainstream media loses credibility, so do the Democrats as that was their primary means of pushing propaganda on the American public. The data is in, and it’s so clear that CNN can’t deny it: the American people trust Republicans over Democrats on the economy, and the gap is widening. 

“You would think after all of the waves, after the last few months, the first four months of the Donald Trump presidency, you'd expect that Democrats would have this massive lead on the economy,” CNN’s Harry Enten said. “It ain't so. It ain't so.”

“The party that is closest to your economic views in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points. Now it's still within that range, still within that margin of error. Plus eight-point advantage for the Republican Party. How is that possible, Democrats?”

He added, “How is that possible? After all the recession fears, after the stock market's been doing all of this, after all the tariffs that Americans are against, and Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy. Are you kidding me?”

“What do we see here?” Enten asked rhetorically, “Party with a better economic plan. Well, in May of 2024, just before Donald Trump was reelected president, Republicans had a nine-point advantage. Look at where we are now. In May of 2025, the advantage actually went up by three points.”

“Now, Republicans have a 12-point advantage when it comes to the party with a better economic plan.”