Today, Donald Trump is touching down in Las Vegas to celebrate his tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations that did nothing for working families. A new report from Defend America Action is laying out the price tag Nevadans are paying for his agenda. The average Nevada family has already had to spend an estimated $2,900 more on goods and services since Trump took office, and between sky-high inflation, Trump’s war of choice in Iran, tariffs, and cuts to health care and food assistance, this is only expected to get worse.
Nevada families spend nearly 20 percent more on groceries than the national average, and gas prices have climbed to around $4.80 a gallon, among the highest in the nation, after Trump’s Iran war disrupted global oil supplies. More than half of Nevada renters are cost-burdened, and 2025 was the worst year for home sales in Southern Nevada since 2007. Ranchers, brewers, and coffee roasters are all sounding the alarm over tariff-driven costs, while health care premiums spike for tens of thousands of families.
The damage goes beyond the checkout line. Trump has jeopardized hundreds of millions of dollars in Nevada energy investments and ripped away hundreds of millions more in federal funding for health care and food assistance. More than 100,000 Nevadans now stand to lose their health care because of the massive Trump-GOP cuts.
During his midterm Gaslighting Tour, Trump has been jetting in and out of states without a care for the economic damage he’s done. Unfortunately for Nevadans, they can’t just fly away from the affordability crisis Trump created.
A full copy of the report can be found here.
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