{"id":57611,"date":"2025-12-10T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57611\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:28:08","slug":"jd-vance-to-visit-allentown-for-speech-on-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57611\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance to visit Allentown for speech on economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance is expected to give a speech in the Lehigh Valley next week to focus on the economy, in the vein of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/09\/trump-savages-rivals-touts-economic-record-at-packed-nepa-rally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump\u2019s remarks Tuesday night at Mount Airy Casino Resort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vance\u2019s office said he would appear in Allentown, but no further details on the timing or location were immediately available. The speech is part of the administration\u2019s efforts to assure voters that it is working to address inflation, according to his office.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Vance\u2019s first visit to the Lehigh Valley since taking office. He previously appeared in Northeast Pennsylvania to tout the administration\u2019s signature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensvoice.com\/2025\/07\/16\/vance-one-big-beautiful-bill-will-get-pa-and-manufacturing-roaring-back\/?clearUserState=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Big Beautiful Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the road in the Poconos on Tuesday, Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, yet the issue that has damaged his popularity couldn\u2019t quite command his full attention.\u00a0He meandered during his remarks, asking why the U.S. couldn\u2019t take in more immigrants from Scandinavia and using an expletive to describe countries such as Haiti and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance is expected to give a speech in the Lehigh Valley next week to focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,28,29,50,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-57611","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-lehigh-county","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-pennsylvania-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611","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=57611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}