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ICYMI: ‘Florida hospital faces financial strain due to high number of migrant visits’

Joe Biden’s open border crisis is destroying hospitals.

WSVN: “Manatee Memorial Hospital is calling for additional resources to manage an overwhelming number of visits by migrants, putting a financial strain on its operations and potentially impacting the quality of care for all patients.

Over the past six months, the hospital has recorded nearly 600 hospital stays and 3,500 emergency room visits by undocumented immigrants. This surge has led to significant operation challenges and financial struggle.”

FACT CHECK: President Trump Will ALWAYS Defend Social Security

Biden has tried to destroy Social Security for 40+ years — while President Trump has been clear: he will ALWAYS defend Social Security and Medicare.

  • If the millions of Biden migrants are allowed to stay as Joe Biden intends, they will cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, and Medicare and Social Security will buckle and collapse.
  • Bidenflation is crushing America’s seniors who rely on Social Security with rising prices.
    • Medical care: +8.1%
    • Prescription drugs: +7%
    • Non-prescription drugs: +17.7%
    • Hospital services: +16.3%
    • Dental services: +15.8%
    • Eyeglasses and eye care: +7.9%
    • Nursing home and adult day care services: +16.6%
  • Crooked Joe Biden has CUT Medicare Advantage for the last two years in a row.
  • President Trump has promised not to cut one single penny from Social Security or Medicare.

Joe Biden’s Real Environmental Record

Americans while accomplishing nothing—it’s about control, not a clean environment:

  • Upon taking office, Biden rejoined the globalist Paris Climate Accords, committing the U.S. to economic suicide for negligible carbon emission reductions:
    • Achieving Biden’s climate goals through a carbon tax would slash U.S. GDP by $7.7 trillion over the next two decades and kill 1.2 million jobs.
    • Even if the U.S. eliminated all carbon emissions, it would only lower global temperatures by less than 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100.
    • Meanwhile, China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, can increase their emissions through 2030. The Paris Accords are a victory for Communist China and a defeat for American industry.
  • In another win for China, Joe Biden imposed massive restrictions on the manufacture of internal combustion engine-powered cars to force Americans to buy electric vehicles:
    • Under the mandate, 67% of newly-built cars, SUVs, and light trucks must be electric by 2032.
    • Building an electric vehicle can create up to 65% more emissions than a gas-powered car due to the metals needed for lithium-ion batteries.
    • California recently discovered that electric vehicles, with their heavy batteries, experience greater tire wear, emitting more particulate pollutants than cars with internal combustion engines.
  • If Biden truly cared about carbon emissions, he wouldn’t be waging a war on clean liquified natural gas (LNG):
    • Over the last two decades, as LNG replaced coal as a primary source of generating electricity, carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. have plummeted by one billion metric tons.
    • Instead of boosting American LNG exports, creating wealth at home and lowering carbon emissions around the world, the Biden administration is halting new permits for LNG exports.
    • Biden’s SEC and Office of the Controller of the Currency have made investing in and lending to the natural gas industry harder, while the Department of Energy has increased costs for natural gas-powered boilers, water heaters, and stoves.
  • The Biden administration’s incompetence and addiction to DEI requirements is undermining its own agenda. Despite two years and $7.5 billion aimed at building 500,000 electric vehicle chargers, they’ve only managed to construct seven.
  • After a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio—a true environmental catastrophe that flooded the small community with dangerous pollutants—Biden played politics, ignoring them for over a year before finally visiting under political pressure.

President Trump championed environmental stewardship while rejecting anti-growth, anti-human green climate hysteria:

  • Under President Trump’s leadership, renewable energy production and consumption hit record highs in 2019, proving that economic growth and environmental protection can go hand-in-hand.
  • President Trump’s policies doubled electricity generated from solar power and increased wind power generation by an impressive 32% from 2016 to 2019.
  • The Trump Administration invested over $38 billion in clean water infrastructure, ensuring safer drinking water for all Americans and protecting our precious water resources.
  • In 2019, America led the world in reducing carbon emissions, achieving the largest decline of any country. This was accomplished even after withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, debunking the myth that environmental progress requires globalist agreements.
  • President Trump signed the Save Our Seas Act to target the critical issue of marine litter, holding foreign nations accountable for ocean debris and launching the first-ever federal strategic plan to address this problem.
  • The Great American Outdoors Act, signed by President Trump, marked the single largest investment in America’s National Parks and public lands, ensuring their preservation for future generations.

President Trump signed the largest public lands legislation in a decade, designating 1.3 million new acres of wilderness, demonstrating a commitment to protecting America’s natural beauty.

Border Patrol Union Calls Out Joe Biden On His Lie

Joe Biden can barely talk tonight, but when he does talk he is lying.

Biden said that the Border Patrol “endorsed me.”

That is a lie and the Border Patrol Union called him out on it Thursday night — “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”

FACT CHECK: Evidence Shows Biden Was FULLY INVOLVED In Hunter’s Corrupt Deals

Crooked Joe Biden was intimately involved in his family’s corrupt business schemes for decades as they leveraged their family’s influence to make millions.

Now, Biden’s Justice Department is running cover as they try to cover their tracks.

FACT CHECK: The Greatest Threat To Democracy Is Joe Biden

Whatever Crooked Joe Biden accuses others of doing, he’s actually doing himself.

Biden’s bureaucratic deep state has unleashed an unprecedented political persecution of his top political rival.

  • Biden’s Justice Department colluded with the Biden White House to embark on an illegal, unconstitutional raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home — where they doctored photos, raided closets, threatened lawyers, and even authorized “DEADLY FORCE” against a former president of the United States.
  • Biden-aligned puppets in heavily Democrat jurisdictions have utilized lawfare against President Trump in thinly veiled attempts at election interference as others attempted to unilaterally remove President Trump from the ballot.
  • Biden’s DOJ covered up the investigation into the Biden Crime Family, the Russia collusion hoax, and the investigation into COVID’s origins — all to protect their own cronies.

Crooked Joe isn’t just after President Trump — he’s targeting anyone with whom he disagrees.

There’s a reason voters see President Trump as the strongest candidate to protect democracy.

FACT CHECK: Biden Has Brought Us To The Brink Of WWIII

Under President Trump, the world was safe because America was strong and America was respected — then Crooked Joe Biden took office.

Biden’s foreign policy has projected nothing but weakness on the world stage:

  • Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal was among the biggest foreign policy debacles in modern history — resulting in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and giving the Taliban safe haven once again.
  • Biden’s policy of appeasement has enriched the Iranian regime with tens of billions of dollars, which enabled hundreds of attacks by Iran-backed proxies on U.S. personnel in the Middle East – and the deaths of more U.S. service members.
  • Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to surveil sensitive U.S. military sites, watched as China secretly built military facilities in neighboring countries, failed to address their human rights abuses, and twice committed U.S. forces to defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion before promptly walking the statements back.
  • Biden’s reversal of President Trump’s decision to cut Palestinian aid — which often flows right into the hands of terrorists — enabled the worst attack on Israel in decades. Now, Biden has sacrificed America’s greatest ally simply to maintain support from his antisemitic base.
  • Eleven U.S. embassies across the globe have been evacuated since Biden took office as our enemies become increasingly emboldened by Biden’s disastrous foreign policy.

Under President Donald J. Trump, Iran was weak, ISIS was eliminated, Hamas was cut off, historic peace was descending on the Middle East, Russia was under control, and there hadn’t been a U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan in 18 months.

President Trump will restore stability and peace — and it will be peace through strength. 

Joe Biden’s Real Foreign Policy Record

As Obama’s former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

  • The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan surrendered $85 billion in military equipment to the Taliban and led to the tragic deaths of 13 U.S. service members.
  • The Biden administration ran afoul of a Trump-era law that prohibited the U.S. from granting funds to the Palestinian government while they paid salaries to imprisoned terrorists and their families.
  • In Apr. 2021, the Biden administration greenlit $235 million in aid to Palestinians for “humanitarian assistance,” despite State Department officials’ stated concerns that “there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza.”
  • In Sep. 2023, the Biden administration unfroze $6 billion in Iranian assets held in a South Korean bank in exchange for five U.S. hostages.
  • In Sep. 2023, the Biden administration granted $100,000 to a university in Gaza which has praised Hamas terrorists as “righteous martyrs.”
  • Biden undid President Trump’s decision to place the Iran-backed Houthis on the Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist lists.
  • The Biden administration relaxed enforcement of President Trump’s maximum pressure sanctions on Iranian oil sales, allowing them access to billions of dollars to fund global terrorism.
  • Iranian-backed militia groups have launched over 165 attacks on American forces since October, including one that tragically killed three U.S. soldiers.
  • One month after the 9/11 terror attacks, Biden told staffers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it “seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”
  • On his first day in office, Biden undid a Trump-era rule that ordered a ban, replacement, and set new criteria for bulk-power system electric equipment imported from areas or individuals posing national security threats. The rule aimed to prevent Chinese Communist Party influence over the American power grid.
  • Biden’s Department of Justice ended the “China Initiative,” a program launched by the Trump Administration and tasked with “identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage,” and “protecting our critical infrastructure against external threats through foreign direct investment and supply chain compromises.”
  • Joe Biden re-engaged with the World Health Organization after President Trump cut ties with the group over their role in enabling China’s cover-up of the origins of COVID.
  • Under Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act,” Chinese solar companies stand to receive as much as $1.4 billion annually in taxpayer-funded subsidies.
  • In 2000, then-Senator Joe Biden told Chinese state media that “China is not our enemy. There’s nothing inevitable about China and the United States not being as cooperative as other nations.”
  • In 2011, then-Vice President Biden reiterated in remarks at Sichuan University that “I believed in 1979 and said so and I believe now that a rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China but for the United States and the world as a whole.”
  • In 2000, then-Senator Biden voted to normalize trade relations with China, against going against the United Auto Workers and Teamsters and setting the stage for China’s trade abuses against the United States.
  • The Biden administration waived sanctions on the Russian company constructing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, after being asked if Donald Trump or Joe Biden would be better for Russia’s interested, answered Joe Biden for his “predictability” as a “politician of the old formation.”
  • Joe Biden halted all new liquified natural gas export permits in January 2024 and now, as of May 2024, Russia has overtaken the United States as the primary supplier of natural gas to Europe.

Biden’s foreign policy failures extend to Africa, where our U.S. troop presence was unceremoniously declared illegal and forced to abandon a $110 million air base crucial to counterterrorism efforts.

FACT CHECK: “Suckers And Losers” Hoax Is *Still* A Hoax

A White House email from a U.S. Marine Corps official proves a “bad weather call” was the reason for President Trump’s canceled visit to Aisne-Marne American cemetery in 2018; further evidence refuting Biden’s claim includes U.S. Navy records and even John Bolton’s own book.

Unequivocal denials came from virtually every official on the trip:

  • Zach Fuentes, former deputy to Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly: “I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?” (Breitbart, 9/7/20)
  • John Bolton, former National Security Advisor: “I didn’t hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. I was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go Aisne-Marne cemetery. He decided not to do it because of John Kelly’s recommendation. It was entirely a weather-related decision, and I thought the proper thing to do.” (Fox News, 9/4/20)
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary: “The Atlantic story on @realDonaldTrump is total BS. I was actually there and one of the people part of the discussion – this never happened … I am disgusted by this false attack.” (X, 9/3/20)
  • Hogan Gidley, former White House deputy press secretary: “These are disgusting, grotesque, reprehensible lies. I was there in Paris and the President never said those things … These weak, pathetic, cowardly background ‘sources’ do not have the courage or decency to put their names to these false accusations because they know how completely ludicrous they are. It’s sickening that they would hide in the shadows to knowingly try and hurt the morale of our great military simply for an attack on a political opponent.” (X, 9/3/20)
  • Dan Scavino, White House deputy chief of staff for communications: “I was with POTUS in France, with Sarah, and have been at his side throughout it all. Complete lies by ‘anonymous sources’ that were ‘dropped’ just as he begins to campaign (and surge). A disgraceful attempt to smear POTUS, 60 days before the Presidential Election! Disgusting!!” (X, 9/3/20)
  • Jordan Karem, former personal aide to President Trump: “This is not even close to being factually accurate. Plain and simple, it just never happened.” (X, 9/3/20)
  • Johnny DeStefano, former counselor to President Trump: “I was on this trip. The Atlantic bit is not true. Period.” (X, 9/4/20)
  • Stephen Miller, former senior advisor to President Trump: “[A] despicable lie … The president deeply wanted to attend the memorial event in question and was deeply displeased by the bad weather call.” (Washington Examiner, 9/3/20)
  • Derek Lyons, former staff secretary and counselor to President Trump: “I was with the President the morning after the scheduled visit. He was extremely disappointed that arrangements could not be made to get him to the site, and that the trip had been cancelled.” (X, 9/4/20)
  • Dan Walsh, former White House deputy chief of staff: “I can attest to the fact that there was a bad weather call in France, and that the helicopters were unable to safely make the flight.” (White House Press Briefing, 9/4/20)
  • First Lady Melania Trump: “@TheAtlantic story is not true. It has become a very dangerous time when anonymous sources are believed above all else, & no one knows their motivation. This is not journalism – It is activism. And it is a disservice to the people of our great nation.” (X, 9/4/20)
  • Jamie McCourt, former U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco: “In my presence, POTUS has NEVER denigrated any member of the U.S. military or anyone in service to our country. And he certainly did not that day, either. Let me add, he was devastated to not be able to go to the cemetery at Belleau Wood. In fact, the next day, he attended and spoke at the ceremony in Suresnes in the pouring rain.” (Breitbart, 9/7/20)
  • Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House chief of staff: “These claims are simply outrageous. I never heard the President disparage our war dead or wounded. In fact, the exact opposite is true. I was with him at the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy. As we flew over the beaches by helicopter he was outwardly in awe of the accomplishments of the Allied Forces, and the sacrifices they paid.” (X, 9/4/20)
  • Maj. Gen. Bill Maz, secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission: “I was the host of the event discussed by the false and despicable article published in The Atlantic magazine on 3 September … when the President’s visit was appropriately canceled due to weather, I received word also that he was upset he would not be able to make the wreath-laying visit…” (X, 9/8/20)
  • Tony Ornato, former deputy White House chief of staff, denied the report. (X, 9/3/20)

The despicable “suckers and losers” hoax should be dismissed as just that.

FACT CHECK: No, Biden Didn’t “Create” Record Jobs

The vast majority of the jobs “created” under Biden were simply recovered from the pandemic — while wage growth was higher under President Trump.

  • As many as seven-in-ten jobs “created” since the pandemic were recovered, not new jobs.
  • More foreign-born workers have joined the labor force than native-born American workers during the Biden presidency.
  • Overall unemployment is at its highest in more than two years — with unemployment spiking among Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, veterans, and high school graduates who did not attend college.
  • Labor force participation still remains FAR below pre-pandemic levels.
  • Wage growth was HIGHER under President Trump.

The only way back to prosperity is by re-electing President Donald J. Trump in November.

FACT CHECK: Biden Is The Real Abortion Extremist

Biden is an abortion extremist whose radical views are out of step with the majority of Americans.

Biden has gone from saying abortion is “always a tragedy” to “absolutely” supporting taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand until the moment of birth.

  • Nearly three quarters of Americans OPPOSE abortion after 15 weeks, while just ten percent believe there should be no limits.
  • More Americans support protecting unborn babies at 15 weeks than oppose restrictions – including majorities of Democrats, independents, and women.

Biden’s position is echoed across his administration and campaign:

  • “I’m not gonna respond to that,” Biden said when asked if he supports “limits” on abortion-on-demand.
  • Kamala Harris couldn’t name a single limit she supports on abortion-on-demand.
  • Karine Jean-Pierre has routinely declined to specify what, if any, limits Biden supports on abortion-on-demand.
  • Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra repeatedly declined to name a single restriction the Biden administration supports on third-trimester abortions.

Meanwhile, President Trump supports the rights of individual states to make that decision for themselves.

FACT CHECK: Biden Promised A Border Crisis — And That’s Exactly What We Got

Biden took unprecedented action to dismantle President Trump’s successful border security policies — and imported millions of illegal aliens into our communities

  • Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to dismantle President Trump’s border security — including halting construction of the border wall and ending the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
  • Biden implemented a catch-and-release scheme via the CBP One app that has allowed millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to be resettled in U.S. communities with zero oversight.
  • Under Biden, at least ten million illegal immigrants, 30 tons of fentanyl, and criminals from all over the world have crossed the border — as American citizens are raped and murdered by illegals with no right to be here.

In 2020, Biden told us exactly what would happen when he called for ending the detention of illegals “across the board,” called for decriminalizing illegal border crossing, called for mass amnesty for millions of illegals in the country, opposed cracking down on sanctuary cities, criticized immigration enforcement raids, and promised to expand the number of “refugees” welcomed into the country.

Crooked Joe Biden has made good on that promise — and would take it ten steps further in a second term.

Joe Biden’s Disgraceful Lie

Joe Biden just lied and said that he’s “the only president… this decade that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world.”

That is a disgraceful lie.

During Joe Biden’s first year in office, 13 American troops were killed during the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan. 

And just a few months ago, three American soldiers were killed in Jordan during an attack by an Iranian-backed militia.

Joe Biden’s Real Healthcare Record

Since Joe Biden took office, healthcare costs are rising and patients have fewer options for care:

  • Private health insurance premiums have risen for the third year in a row under Biden. In 2024, Americans purchasing a plan through the marketplace will pay a record $584 a month, or $7,008 a year, for their coverage.
  • Nearly 40% of Americans delayed seeking health care or filling prescriptions last year due to rising costs.
  • Average workplace health insurance premiums for employees and their families jumped 7% in 2023, climbing to nearly $24,000.
  • Since Biden took office, drug costs for patients are climbing—over-the-counter drugs cost 17.7% more today than in January 2021.
  • For two years in a row, Joe Biden has slashed payments to 33 million Americans—over half of the Medicare population—enrolled in Medicare Advantage, a system of private healthcare plans.
    • The Berkeley Research Group estimates that medical cost inflation will be between 4% and 6% next year for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
  • The rule changes in the Biden administration’s Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 will kick nearly 3 million people off their health plans by making over 57% of plans currently offered through the federal marketplace illegal.
  • In his first month in office, the Biden administration froze two Trump-era rules lowering drug prices for Americans, including regulations lowering costs for under-served patients needing EpiPens and insulin.
  • Biden’s so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” massively lowers research and development spending for cancer treatments and cures, and would “ultimately raise, as opposed to lower, cancer mortality.”
    • Price controls included in the “Inflation Reduction Act” will, according to research from the University of Chicago, reduce cancer research and development spending by $663 billion, or 18.5%, over the next fifteen years. The reduction in cancer R&D spending caused by the Inflation Reduction Act eclipses any new proposed cancer research spending by 9.4 times.
  • The Biden administration is enforcing DEI restrictions on medical procedures as critical as kidney transplants, rewarding hospitals for ignoring the transplant waiting list in order to favor racial “health equity.”

President Trump increased competition, spurred medical research and innovation, and lowered costs for patients:

  • President Trump took executive action to make it the official policy of the United States to protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
  • The Trump Administration cut miles of burdensome red tape across the healthcare industry, saving the medical community a projected $6.6 billion in wasteful regulatory compliance costs.
  • President Trump lowered drug prices for Americans for the first time in over fifty years, saving them almost 10% on prescription drugs. His administration finalized rules to allow patients to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, as well as the Most Favored Nation Rule to ensure that pharmaceutical companies offer the same discounts to Americans that they do to other nations.
    • The Most Favored Nation Rule alone is projected to save patients $85 billion over seven years, including $30 billion in out-of-pocket costs.
  • President Trump instituted unprecedented, pro-patient price transparency rules, giving Americans more access than ever to vital information about the different medical services, insurance plans, treatments, drugs, and their costs available to them.
  • President Trump promoted competition in the individual health insurance market, resulting in lower premiums for three years in a row.
  • The Trump Administration added over 2,000 new Medicare Advantage plan options during his administration, and lowered Medicare Advantage premiums to their lowest level in 14 years, saving beneficiaries nearly $1.5 billion.
  • President Trump reduced prescription drug premiums by nearly $2 billion for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.
  • President Trump enhanced Medicare Part D plans to cap insulin at $35 a month copay.
  • The Trump Administration championed access to healthcare in rural and underserved communities by expanding telehealth availability and increasing Medicare payments to rural hospitals.
  • President Trump increased funding for Alzheimer’s disease research by $1 billion, signed an executive order to fight kidney disease with improved treatment and more transplants, and initiated a campaign to provide $500 million over the next decade for childhood cancer research.
  • President Trump passed Right to Try, giving terminally ill patients access to lifesaving, cutting-edge therapies and cures.
  • President Trump will protect Medicare: Not “a single penny” will be cut from “the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives.”

FACT CHECK: No, Biden Didn’t “Cut The Deficit” — He ADDED To It

Biden insists he cut the federal deficit (or debt, depending on his coherence) — but his claim doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny.

Despite misguided criticism from Crooked Joe Biden, President Trump’s actions during COVID were praised for saving lives and keeping the U.S. economy afloat amid an unprecedented pandemic.

FACT CHECK: Biden Fueled The Inflation Crisis

Crooked Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed inflation was “9%” when he took office, but he couldn’t be more wrong.

  • Biden took office with year-over-year inflation at 1.4% — then promised rising inflation was “transitory” as it went higher and higher, peaking at 9.1% well over a year later.
  • Under Biden, Americans have experienced the longest period of high inflation since the late 1980s — with overall prices up 20.1% since he took office.
  • The actual Consumer Price Index has reached a new “ALL-TIME HIGH” under Biden, underscoring the devastating effects of Biden’s cumulative price hikes.
  • Average inflation under Biden is DOUBLE what it was under any of the last four presidents.
  • Biden’s reckless spending fueled the inflation crisis — despite warnings from top economists.
    • Economists called Biden’s $1.9 trillion tax-and-spending spree “the original sin” of inflation — and it only got worse from there as Biden and Democrats spent trillions more in taxpayer money.

Under President Trump, Americans enjoyed prosperity.

Joe Biden’s Real Economic Record

No amount of gaslighting from Crooked Joe can undo the harm Bidenomics has done to hardworking Americans:

  • Since Biden took office in January 2021, prices have risen by over 20%. The average U.S. household now has to spend an additional $13,021 every year just to make ends meet.
  • Joe Biden wants to repeal the Trump Tax Cuts and raise taxes on hardworking Americans.
  • Since he took office, Biden’s inflationary policies have robbed the average household of a staggering $25,920.
  • Since January 2021:
    • A gallon of unleaded gasoline is over 55% more expensive.
    • Hotels cost nearly 54% more.
    • Car insurance payments are nearly 52% higher.
    • A car or truck lease costs over 46% more.
    • Auto repair costs nearly 41% more.
    • Egg prices are up over 40%.
    • Plane tickets are nearly 40% more expensive.
    • Tickets to sporting events cost 34% more.
    • Electricity bills are 29% higher.
    • Baby food and formula is 28% more expensive.
    • Public transportation costs over 27% more.
    • Pet food costs 23% more.
    • Dining out is 22% more expensive.
    • Grocery costs are up over 21%.
    • Rent is up 21%.
  • When adjusted for inflation, average weekly earnings for Americans dropped by nearly 4% under Joe Biden. Under President Trump, they grew by over 8%.
  • Nearly four-in-five Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
  • Total household debt has reached a record $17.7 trillion under Joe Biden.
  • The amount of credit card debt held by Americans is up nearly 42% since January 20, 2021.
  • The number of Americans who are seriously delinquent on their credit card payments is at its highest level since 2010.
  • The percentage of Americans who have become seriously delinquent on their auto loan payments has soared nearly 73% since Biden took office.
  • The American Dream of owning a home has become a nightmare, thanks to Joe Biden:
    • NPR recently reported that home prices have risen “a whopping 47%” since 2020, putting homeownership out of reach of millions.
    • The typical salary needed to own a home has jumped to $106,500, an 81% increase from four years ago.

President Trump stimulated a historic economic boom once before, and he’s the only candidate who can do it again:

  • President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the largest tax reform package in history into law—lowering taxes for all Americans and benefiting the working and middle classes the most. Filers earning less than $50,000 a year saw a tax cut of up to 26%, while filers earning less than $100,000 saw a tax cut of up to 17%.
  • President Trump left office with the inflation rate at 1.4%. In fact, inflation during Trump’s term never went above 2.9%. Average inflation during Trump Presidency: 1.89%.
  • Real median household income reached a historic high of $78,250 under President Trump. Real median household income increased 6.34% during the Trump Administration.
  • President Trump presided over a 19% decline in food stamp rolls, or 8.5 million people—a federal savings of $11 billion.

President Trump’s economic policies lowered the percentage of people living in poverty by 15% during his administration.

Author: The Iowa Standard

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