{"id":244340,"date":"2026-07-15T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244340\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:17:14","slug":"president-trump-visits-central-pa-for-inaugural-defense-and-innovation-summit-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244340\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump visits Central Pa. for inaugural Defense and Innovation Summit | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARLISLE, Pa. –\u00a0President Donald Trump is in Pennsylvania again Wednesday, his second trip to the Keystone State in less than a month.<\/p>\n

He stopped at the U.S. Army War College near Carlisle, about 30 miles outside Harrisburg.<\/p>\n

Trump took part in\u00a0the inaugural Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, wrapping this two-day event up.<\/p>\n

The President took part in a roundtable surrounded by executives, like JP Morgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n

President Trump and Senator Dave McCormick announced $10 billion in defense, creating 4,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, including several companies in our area– Mack Defense being one of them.<\/p>\n

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Millions of dollars in investments for Lehigh County, Berks businesses announced at Pa. Summit<\/a><\/p>\n

Ship building is among what the President says funding will help out with.<\/p>\n

His visit here comes as fighting continues in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

He said at Wednesday’s roundtable that “Iran will be defeated soon.”<\/p>\n

The President also touching on the death of fallen State Trooper Michael Pahira, saying the driver who investigators say is an illegal immigrant should’ve never been here.<\/p>\n

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Driver accused in fatal I-81 Trooper crash has \u2018scattered memories,\u2019 attorney says<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump’s speech\u00a0Wednesday comes ahead of his address to the nation Thursday night.<\/a>\u00a0The address is expected to focus on elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARLISLE, Pa. –\u00a0President Donald Trump is in Pennsylvania again Wednesday, his second trip to the Keystone State in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,805,28,7445,7446],"class_list":["post-244340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-berks","tag-lehighvalley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-poconos-coal","tag-southeastern-pa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}