Today, President Donald J. Trump returns to South Carolina to celebrate the powerful results of America First leadership. Under President Trump and Republicans, South Carolina is thriving: the largest tax cuts for working families in a generation, the most secure border in history, plunging crime rates, unleashed American energy, and a surge of private investment creating jobs and opportunity across the Palmetto State. President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts put real money back into the pocket of South Carolina workers, families, and seniors.
No Tax on Overtime: One in four South Carolina workers no longer pay federal income taxes on qualifying overtime pay. No Tax on Social Security : Approximately one million South Carolina seniors benefit from the new senior deduction. Bigger Refunds: South Carolina taxpayers saw average tax refunds reach $3,476 . Rural Health Investments: South Carolina secured more than $200 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program. Protecting South Carolina’s Economy: The Working Families Tax Cuts safeguarded 86,000 South Carolina jobs, $15 billion in state GDP, and $8 billion in workers’ wages.
President Trump’s law-and-order agenda is delivering safer streets across South Carolina as violent crime falls sharply. Statewide homicides dropped more than 18% in 2025 — and fell another 21% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period the prior year. Statewide aggravated assaults fell over 12% in 2025 and 18% in the first half of 2026. Statewide rapes declined over 12% in 2025 and 23% in the first half of 2026. Statewide robberies dropped over 21% in 2025 and 24% in the first half of 2026.
In Charleston, overall crime plunged 36% in 2025, with homicides, aggravated assaults, robberies, and sex offenses all well below the five-year average. President Trump’s America First economic agenda — tax cuts, energy dominance, secure…