Increased Protections: Expanding consumer protections against price gouging for basic goods, like at the gas pump and in the grocery store.
Expand consumer protections against price gouging for basic goods, including gas and groceries.
Occurrences
Evidence
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.6 percent in April 2026. The index for energy rose 3.8 percent and the index for food increased 0.5 percent over the month, with food at home up 0.7 percent.
Assessments
No federal price-gouging protections for basic goods such as gas and groceries appear to have been enacted during Mannion's current House term. The most directly relevant 119th Congress measures remain introduced/referred rather than enacted: H.R.4966, the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 2025, would prohibit retail food store price gouging and surveillance-based price setting and lists Mannion as a cosponsor in available bill-tracking records, but Congress.gov shows it only as introduced and referred to committees. Other broader price-gouging bills, including H.R.4528/S.2321, also remain introduced, and Mannion is not shown as a House cosponsor of H.R.4528. Because he appears to have made a relevant legislative attempt on grocery price gouging but the promised expansion of consumer protections has not become law, this is not delivered; the effort badge is warranted.