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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) called out companies for “shrinkflation” Monday after Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster expressed frustration with the practice in a social media post.

“Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” Cookie Monster wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Brown, who serves as the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, agreed with the fuzzy blue Sesame Street character and slammed companies for shrinking the size of their products without cutting prices.

“Me too, Cookie Monster,” Brown wrote on X. “Big corporations shrink the size of their products without shrinking their prices, all to pay for CEO bonuses. People in my state of Ohio are fed up — they should get all the cookie they pay for.”

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) also replied to Cookie Monster’s post Monday, saying, “I’m on it.”

Both Brown and Casey are bracing for tough reelection races in November. Former President Trump won Ohio in both 2016 and 2020; he won Pennsylvania in 2016 before narrowly losing the state to President Biden four years later.

The White House similarly took aim at “shrinkflation” last month ahead of the Super Bowl, with Biden releasing a video slamming the practice as a “rip-off.”

“Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking their products little by little and hoping you won’t notice,” Biden said in the video. “Give me a break. The American public is tired of being played for suckers. I’m calling on companies to put a stop to this.”