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Heartland voters delivered for Trump — here are 10 ways he can deliver for them

4 9
23.01.2025

November’s election saw a narrow but decisive victory for President Trump. Although the national popular vote was close, the geography of Trump voters appears as a sea of red across the heartland of America.

Here are 10 recommendations for Trump to help him meaningfully improve the economic prospects and daily lives of the heartland working-class families that put him in office.

  • Keep domestic investments: Recent bipartisan legislation, including the Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, constitute the largest investments in heartland regions in U.S. history. These programs give the United States a competitive edge in emerging industries and many new good-paying jobs for hard-pressed residents of heartland communities.
  • Don’t throw the economic baby out with the governmental bath water. Trump moved quickly after his election to create the new Department of Government Efficiency. The streamlining of federal bureaucracy should, however, preserve officials responsible for administering the unprecedented funding pouring out to heartland communities. Trump should also keep existing federal entities responsible for economic data collection and statistics on state and local economies, maintaining the ability to gauge the impact of priorities like tariff and immigration policy. 
  • Keep illegal immigrants out — and let more legal immigrants in. Americans support getting control of illegal immigration, but legal immigration remains a driver of America’s competitive edge over economic rivals like China. Studies show that immigrants have led to U.S. employment and population growth for 50 years; they are

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