“We will have a national ban on price gouging, which is companies taking advantage of the desperation and need of the American consumer and jacking up prices without any consequence or accountability.”
Kamala Harris
Vice President of the United States. CNN town hall. Claim dated 23 Oct 2024.
FactCheck.org rated thisLittle Effect on Current Prices
What FactCheck.org found
Economists consistently told us that the anti-price gouging proposal would have little effect on current grocery prices.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States) made this claim around 23 October 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2024, 5 days later. Its rating was “Little Effect on Current Prices”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.