by S.A. McCarthy at Washington Stand
As President Donald Trump and his administration work on expanding deportation operations, the White House is reporting that blue-collar workers have seen the most significant growth in wages in over half a century. “In President Donald J. Trump’s first five months in office, real wages for hourly workers have seen their largest increase under any administration in nearly 60 years — and we’re just getting started with pro-growth, pro-prosperity policies that finally put America First,” the White House reported this week. Blue-collar American workers have seen an increase of 1.7% in real wages over the past five months.
The only other times blue-collar workers have seen any rise in wages during the first five months of a presidency in the last 56 years was under the first Trump administration (1.3%) and Richard Nixon’s administration in 1969 (0.8%). In the first five months of Jimmy Carter’s administration, blue-collar wages saw no growth, but blue-collar wages actually saw negative growth during the first five months of the presidencies of Ronald Reagan (-0.9%), George H.W. Bush (-3.0%), Bill Clinton (-0.6%), George W. Bush (-0.6%), Barack Obama (-0.3%), and Joe Biden (-1.7%).
In an interview, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attributed the economic shift to the Trump administration’s emphasis on domestic manufacturing and immigration policy. “Biden opened the border, and it was flooded,” Bessent said. He explained, “And for working Americans, that’s a disaster because it’s pressure on their wages.”
As The Washington Stand recently reported,…
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