Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seemed to reverse himself on the federal minimum wage during an interview Sunday morning.
“Let me just tell you, I’ve been traveling the country for many months. Since June 16th. I’m all over,” Trump told NBC News’ Chuck Todd. “I have seen what’s going on, and I don’t know how people make it on $7.25 an hour.”
“Now, with that being said, I would like to see an increase of some magnitude,” he added. “But I’d rather leave it to the states.”
Trump continued, “I think people should get more … I don’t know how you live on $7.25 an hour. But I would say let the states decide.”
The billionaire’s most recent comments come months after he infamously suggested that “wages are too high” in the United States.
“We have to become competitive with the world. Our taxes are too high, our wages are too high, everything is too high,” Trump told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough in November. “What’s going to happen is now people are going to start firing people.”
“I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is,” he later added during a GOP debate.
