{"id":340399,"date":"2025-12-10T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340399\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:21:08","slug":"presidents-first-local-stop-of-the-year-centers-on-inflation-and-economic-progress-monroe-county-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340399\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s first local stop of the year centers on inflation and economic progress | Monroe County Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARADISE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Edward Young was among those lined up early at Mount Airy Casino in Paradise Township ahead of President Trump&#8217;s visit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got here maybe after quarter of two in the morning,&#8221; said Young.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said the President will speak about ending the inflation crisis that he said was inherited from former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inflation has devastated all the savings I had in the bank. I mean it&#8217;s ruined my life. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever be able to retire right now as things stand, but things are getting better,&#8221; said Young.<\/p>\n<p>The President is set to speak in front of a crowd of around 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>This stop comes in a county that President Trump won in 2024 after losing it in 2020 to former President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Nima Poursohi said he thinks the economy is headed in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take some time, but I definitely agree and have faith that President Trump is going to do what it takes and he has what it takes to get the job done,&#8221; said Poursohi.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be President Trump&#8217;s first stop in our area since re-taking office in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARADISE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Edward Young was among those lined up early at Mount Airy Casino in Paradise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[53910,28,101,171000,3319,171001,171003,170999,171002,3479],"class_list":{"0":"post-340399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-2024-election","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-inflation-crisis","12":"tag-joe-biden","13":"tag-mount-airy-casino","14":"tag-paradise-township","15":"tag-poconos","16":"tag-presidential-visit","17":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}