November NBC News poll,<\/a> only 30% of voters believe Trump has lived up to their expectations to bring down inflation and the cost of living.<\/p>\nTrump continues to insist that inflation has faded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re bringing prices way down,\u201d Trump said at the White House on Monday. \u201cYou can call it \u2018affordability\u2019 or anything you want \u2014 but the Democrats caused the affordability problem, and we\u2019re the ones that are fixing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a virtual news conference Tuesday morning, a group of Pennsylvania Democratic lawmakers and political advocates, including Lieutenant Gov. Austin Davis and Pennsylvania House Minority Whip Mike Schlossberg, who represents parts of Allentown and its suburbs, blasted Trump\u2019s visit. They criticized Trump policies including the One Big Beautiful Bill, which will cut taxes for most Americans but is expected to disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and will exclude millions more from Medicaid health insurance via implementing work requirements.<\/p>\n
Critics made the case that their communities are struggling under the current economy and will reject Trump\u2019s message that he is working to make their expenses more affordable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is that the Trump administration and their Republican allies in Congress have almost enacted a comprehensive squeeze play designed to hurt people in Pennsylvania who are suffering the most, and as a result, you have people who will be dropping their health insurance, who will be relying more on social service programs and on food banks,\u201d Schlossberg said.<\/p>\n
On cable news station MS NOW, Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday night also criticized Trump\u2019s visit, and contrasted his leadership at the state level with that of Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time we cut taxes and put money back in people\u2019s pockets or create more jobs or economic opportunity, we run into the federal government\u2019s economic policies, Trump\u2019s economic policies, which make it harder,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n
A group of Democratic and left-leaning organizations, including Indivisible Poconos, For Our Future and Mutual Aid of the Poconos, has planned a protest against the event at a nearby ShopRite parking lot. Protesters plan to draw attention to the rising cost of health care and groceries, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
Trump is scheduled to begin his remarks at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is expected to highlight his economic agenda and efforts to reduce inflation at a high-profile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,836,433,182,2941,139,434,28,50,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-56582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-monroe-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northampton-county","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56582","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=56582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}