President Donald Trump will create more jobs, companies will have to compete for workers, and wages will go up, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told a Breitbart News event on Friday.
“Bringing back more jobs means more competition for labor, which means we can have an elevation in salaries and not affect the competitiveness of our companies because we [won’t] have to spend as much on rules and regulations,” Duffy said.
The issue is becoming more important as Democrats present themselves as champions of “affordability” for the 2026 election.
Trump is also talking up wage gains before the 2026 election. “These are things you have to talk about, ” he told attendees at a business meeting in Florida on November 5, adding:
It’s wonderful to do them, but if people don’t talk about them, then you can do not so well in elections.
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