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Newt Gingrich Predicts Most Important Issue to Voters at This Time in 2026

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted Monday that the United States will experience a strong economic recovery under President Donald Trump’s policies, setting up a major contrast between Republicans and Democrats in the 2026 elections.

Appearing on Fox Business’s Kudlow, Gingrich said that by next summer, Americans will be living in what he dubbed the “Trump boom”—a period marked by rising wages, new investment, and strong growth driven by tax and regulatory reforms.

“I think by next summer, we’re going to be in the Trump boom. It’s going to be very real,” Gingrich told host Larry Kudlow. “And it’s going to create a choice for the voters next year between a Trump boom on the one hand and the Democrats’ gloom on the other hand.”

Gingrich credited the “One Big Beautiful Bill”, signed into law by Trump on July 4, for laying the groundwork. The law locks in Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, eliminates federal taxes on tips and overtime, increases the child tax credit, and injects billions into border security and defense spending.

He also emphasized the administration’s tariffs and deregulation efforts as central to the expected growth. According to Gingrich, these measures are already boosting manufacturing, investment, and trade.

“If you take the combination of the Big Beautiful Bill with enormous breakthroughs in both taxes and regulations… combine that with the effect of tariffs and Trump going around the planet picking up sales and investment, I think it adds up to a very real boom,” Gingrich said.

Gingrich then took aim at Democratic leaders, accusing them of using procedural tactics to block the transition of power and suppress Republican policy agendas, despite voters choosing a different direction.

“These guys are proud of having stopped the American people from having the folks they want run the federal government,” Gingrich said, pointing to Democratic Senate leadership. “As the country understands what a deliberate strategy this is, they’re going to be very unhappy.”

With the 2026 election cycle already heating up, Gingrich framed the coming economic recovery as a defining issue, positioning it as a referendum on Trump’s economic vision versus what he called the Democrats’ “deliberate obstruction and pessimism.”