President Donald Trump touted the effects of his immigration and economic policies on the American worker on Tuesday. Trump spoke at a rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pennsylvania, the first stop on a tour touting his administration's record on the economy as Washington prepares for the fight over midterm elections. At one point, the president highlighted net new job creation numbers and a nexus of his economic and immigration policies. "Before I entered office, 100% of all new net jobs were going to migrant workers," said Trump. "Migrant workers and illegal aliens got 100%. But since I took office, 100% of all net job creation has gone to American citizens. How about that?"

President Donald Trump hit the road Tuesday night to tout his economic successes during a rally in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that could prove key to Republicans holding the House in the 2026 midterm elections. "I have no higher priority than making America affordable again," said Trump, who spoke in front of a banner reading "Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks." "And again, they caused high prices, and we're bringing them down. … But that's our message. They gave you high prices. They gave you the highest inflation in history. And we're bringing those prices down rapidly.

President Donald Trump was in Pennsylvania Tuesday night touting his administration's economic success, after Democrats swept a series of elections in 2025 while mainly campaigning on platforms focused on "affordability." "They caused the high prices, and we're bringing them down," Trump told the crowd in attendance at a casino resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, whom he spoke to for nearly two hours. "Lower prices, bigger paychecks – you're getting lower prices, bigger paychecks, we're getting inflation – we're crushing it – and you're getting much higher wages. The only thing that is really going up big – it's called the stock market and your 401ks." Affordability has become a flashpoint heading into the midterms, with Republicans now fine-tuning their messaging on the economy after a slew of Democrats won elections in 2025 running on a platform focused on lowering costs. Prior to Tuesday night's address in Pennsylvania, Trump told Politico in an interview that he would give…

Trump claimed prices are declining "very substantially," adding, "They always have a hoax. Their new word is affordability." Trump did not elaborate who he was talking about, though in recent weeks he has pinned the term on Democrats, who campaigned on affordability ahead of a string of election victories across multiple states in November. "I can't say 'affordability hoax' because I agree the prices were too high," Trump said, before claiming the word "affordability" makes people believe "Trump has high prices."

President Trump on Tuesday night gave the first of a series of speeches intended to alleviate Americans' concerns about the cost of living, but spent most of the time mocking the term "affordability" and insisting that Americans were doing better than they had ever done before. Speaking to an enthusiastic group of supporters in a casino in Mt. Pocono, Pa., Mr. Trump plunged immediately into the case that Americans, and Pennsylvanians in particular, were actually doing very well, gliding by the evidence about reduced spending power for the middle class. In a winding presentation that ran for 90 minutes, he episodically talked about economic initiatives, but also wandered into discussions of shutting down immigration, at one point comparing the country's sealed borders to North Korea's.

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