{"id":56757,"date":"2025-12-10T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56757\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:44:09","slug":"live-updates-trump-travels-to-pennsylvania-rally-to-talk-on-affordability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56757\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump travels to Pennsylvania rally to talk on affordability"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> will road-test his claims that he\u2019s tackling Americans\u2019 affordability woes<\/a> at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania \u2014 a trip that comes as polling consistently shows that public trust in Trump\u2019s economic leadership<\/a> has faltered.<\/p>\n

Following dismal results for Republicans<\/a> in last month\u2019s off-cycle elections, the White House has sought to convince voters<\/a> that the economy will emerge stronger next year and that any anxieties over inflation have nothing to do with Trump.<\/p>\n

The president has consistently blamed his predecessor<\/a>, Democrat Joe Biden, for inflation even as his own aggressive implementation of policies has pushed up prices that had been settling down after spiking in 2022 to a four-decade high. <\/p>\n

The trip hints the dilemma faced by Trump. He wants to take credit for rewiring the U.S. economy with his large tariff hikes and extension of income tax cuts, but he also continues to blame Biden for the increase nationwide in inflation rates that occurred this year during his own presidency. Overall, inflation is tracking at 3% annually, up from 2.3% in April when Trump rolled out a sweeping set of import taxes.<\/p>\n

Other news we\u2019re following:<\/p>\n

Ghislaine Maxwell case records to be unsealed after federal judge grants request: The judge said Tuesday that the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case<\/a> against Maxwell<\/a>, the longtime confidante of Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ruled after the Justice Department in November asked two judges in New York to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits, along with investigative materials that could amount to hundreds or thousands of previously unreleased documents.Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy: A federal judge on Monday struck down Trump\u2019s executive order blocking wind energy projects<\/a>, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d and violates U.S. law.Supreme Court weighs Republican appeal to end limits on party spending in federal elections: The Supreme Court<\/a> is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by Trump\u2019s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision<\/a> and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he\u2019s tackling Americans\u2019 affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7097,34,10870,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-56757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757","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=56757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}