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White House Video Claims Inflation Down to 2.7% Average and Real Wages Rising
December 12, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:04
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What happened
The White House narration says the President’s pro-growth policies are making progress to, as it puts it, make America affordable again. It says inflation reached a record high of 9% under President Biden and devoured purchasing power, and that in President Trump’s term so far inflation has dropped to an average of just 2.7%, as the narration states the figures.
The video says the administration is working to bring down the cost of living through bigger paychecks and lower prices, that real wages are on pace to increase roughly $1,200 for the average American worker this year, and that real wages declined by almost $3,000 under the Biden administration — meaning workers are on track to make up one-third of that loss, as the narration presents the arithmetic. It concludes there is much work to do but significant progress has been made, according to its framing.
Why it matters
This one-minute video is the administration’s cost-of-living claim in its most compressed form — two inflation figures and two wage figures — and recording it verbatim-attributed gives the scoreboard a precise claim to test against official data.
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Flagged for the scoreboard editor: the White House video’s stated figures — 2.7% average inflation in this term versus a 9% high under President Biden, and a roughly $1,200 real-wage gain this year versus an almost $3,000 decline previously, as stated in the video published December 12, 2025 — for checking against BLS CPI and real-earnings series. No verdict is given here.
Sources: The White House, “Trump is working hard to bring down the cost of living through bigger paychecks & lower prices”, 2025-12-12 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-12-12). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.