{"id":56091,"date":"2025-12-09T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56091\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:19:11","slug":"trump-to-debut-affordability-rebrand-at-pennsylvania-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56091\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to debut affordability rebrand at Pennsylvania casino"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania \u2014\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/a> is set to travel to Mount Pocono in northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday, where he will make a renewed pitch to voters that his economic agenda will bring down prices for American households.<\/p>\n

Over the past month, Trump<\/a> has sought to reverse negative economic sentiments with a series of cost-focused initiatives aimed at granting consumers relief across several sectors, including housing, automobiles, and food. However, the president has also repeatedly referred to \u201caffordability\u201d as a \u201ccon job\u201d and a \u201choax\u201d manufactured by the Democrats and falsely said he has ended inflation.<\/p>\n

And, according to two of Trump\u2019s out-of-government political advisers, Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are quietly pressing the White House to do more to sell the president\u2019s economic policies ahead of a contentious primary season.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s event, a campaign-style speech at Mount Airy Casino, will represent the first major time Trump has taken his economic spin on the road since Democrats rode a wave of affordability concerns to massive wins in the November elections.<\/p>\n

White House officials argued that Trump<\/a>\u2018s recent affordability push is not a reaction to November\u2019s results, but rather a matter the president has been working on since \u201cDay One.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those officials said undoing the \u201ceconomic damage\u201d former President Joe Biden caused over his four years in office will \u201ctake time\u201d but pointed to slowing inflation and falling gas prices as major indications that the president\u2019s policies \u201cwill deliver results\u201d for voters.<\/p>\n

Still, Tuesday\u2019s locale suggests that \u201cTeam Trump\u201d might be privately feeling the heat despite its public confidence.<\/p>\n

The region, a bellwether area within a critical swing state, is not reliably Republican. However, Monroe County, which encompasses much of the Poconos, voted for Trump in 2024, marking the first time the county went red in a presidential election since 2004.<\/p>\n

And Trump\u2019s messaging appeared to shift slightly while discussing the economy on Monday, abstaining from his repeated claims regarding the affordability \u201choax\u201d while leaning in heavily to the idea that Republicans are cleaning up the \u201cmess\u201d they inherited from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can call it affordability or anything you want, but the Democrats cause the affordability problem, and we\u2019re the ones that are fixing it. So it\u2019s a very simple statement,\u201d he said at the White House. \u201cThey caused it, we\u2019re fixing it. And they have a tendency to just say this election is based on affordability, and nobody questions them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump entered office with net positive ratings on his handling of the economy, but he has seen a significant drop in support on this matter since January.<\/p>\n

A poll published by Politico<\/a> last week found that 46% of the more than 2,000 respondents voiced that the current cost of living in the United States was \u201cthe worst they can ever remember it being,\u201d including 37% of respondents who voted for Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n

Over the past month, Trump<\/a> has employed a somewhat \u201cthrow spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks\u201d strategy, as one veteran Democratic operative referred to it, to address the souring public sentiment.<\/p>\n

In mid-November, Trump threw his support behind proposals from Bill Pulte, his Federal Housing Finance Administration director, to stand up 50-year and portable mortgage options. The president has also opened price-fixing investigations into meat packers, pressed American auto companies to begin producing \u201cvery cute\u201d and \u201ctiny\u201d car options, and unveiled a $12 billion bailout of American farmers struggling under his tariff war.<\/p>\n

Still, the president has also pushed back at the small number of Republicans willing to publicly press him on the matter, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), whose clashes with Trump on affordability and the Jeffrey Epstein files led the president to withdraw his endorsement of her and label her a traitor last month.<\/p>\n

Greene, who has said Trump\u2019s rhetoric has led to death threats against her family, announced recently that she would step down from her office next month. However, she told CBS\u2019s\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0in an interview that aired on Sunday\u00a0that, despite Trump\u2019s claims, affordability is a \u201creal issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the top issues, not only in my district; it\u2019s across the country,\u201d she said, prompting furious insults from the president on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

TRUMP CHANGES HIS TUNE ON RELEASING SECOND STRIKE FOOTAGE<\/a><\/p>\n

Terry Holt, a longtime Republican aide who worked for former President George W. Bush and former Republican House Speaker John Boehner, founded the Cost Coalition earlier this year to oppose Trump\u2019s economic policies. Ahead of Trump\u2019s remarks, Holt told the Washington Examiner that the \u201creal hoax is that Donald Trump and his cronies ever cared about affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe raised the prices he ran on lowering, and now he\u2019s about to make healthcare skyrocket more,\u201d he said. \u201cBillionaires get tax breaks and drug traffickers get pardons, while everyone else picks up the tab.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania \u2014\u00a0President Donald Trump is set to travel to Mount Pocono in northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,61,28,30,29,2286,24540],"class_list":["post-56091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-washington-d-c","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56091","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=56091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}