{"id":150058,"date":"2026-06-20T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150058"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:39:31","slug":"congressman-mackenzie-welcomes-president-trump-ahead-of-visit-to-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150058","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mackenzie Welcomes President Trump Ahead of Visit to the Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Allentown, PA \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), representing the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos, provided the following statement ahead of President Trump\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/4615279\/trump-mack-truck-production-pennsylvania\/\">visit<\/a>\u00a0to the Lehigh Valley on Tuesday, June 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to joining President Trump at Mack Trucks \u2014 one of our nation\u2019s most iconic manufacturers,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Congressman Mackenzie<\/strong>. \u201cBy investing in American workers and supporting domestic manufacturing, President Trump and Republicans in Congress have helped to put the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos at the forefront of our nation\u2019s industrial revitalization. We appreciate President Trump coming to the region to help us highlight the work we\u2019ve done together to support American workers, families, and industries.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s visit to Mack follows Congressman Mackenzie\u2019s Friday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/19\/mack-trucks-defense-funding-allentown-plant\/?share=6etoksccwounlnngd6ne\">press conference<\/a>\u00a0at Mack Defense in Allentown. At the event, Congressman Mackenzie joined representatives from Mack Defense and United Auto Workers Local 677 to celebrate the $47 million appropriation Congressman Mackenzie secured for the continued manufacturing of the company\u2019s M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Valley has been among the fastest-growing regions in the northeastern United States. In recent months, major companies including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/investor.lilly.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/lilly-selects-pennsylvania-home-its-newest-injectable-medicine\">Eli Lilly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/16\/multinational-tech-company-announces-lehigh-valley-expansion-adding-hundreds-of-jobs-here-are-the-details\/\">Nokia<\/a>\u00a0have announced major investments which will bring billions of dollars and thousands of jobs to the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA \u2014\u00a0Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07), representing the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos, provided the following statement ahead of President Trump\u2019s\u00a0visit\u00a0to the Lehigh Valley on Tuesday, June 23rd. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to joining President Trump at Mack Trucks \u2014 one of our nation\u2019s most iconic manufacturers,\u201d\u00a0said Congressman Mackenzie. \u201cBy investing in American workers and supporting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman Mackenzie Welcomes President Trump Ahead of Visit to the Lehigh Valley<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\r\n\r\n{excerpt}\r\n\r\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/us-ryan.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150059,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150058\/revisions\/150059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}