In a speech at a casino in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the president told supporters he had "no higher priority than making America affordable again". The White House blames the former president, Joe Biden, and US central bank interest rates for the lingering economic pain. In an excerpt from an interview with Politico released on Tuesday, Trump was asked what grade he would give the economy. At the rally, Trump said "prices are coming down tremendously from the highest prices in the history of our country." On Tuesday night, Trump called tariffs his "favourite word", pointing to hundreds of billions of dollars of US revenue from the import taxes.