Donald Trump said he wants the states to decide minimum wage laws. | AP Photo Trump: 'I don't know how people make it on $7.25 an hour'

Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday he wants to see the minimum wage increased but would rather it be done by the states than the federal government.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s openness to increases in the minimum wage is a reversal from his previous stance that the minimum wage should not be raised, including when he famously pronounced during a debate last year that wages were “too high.”


On NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump said his reversal was the result of traveling around the country talking to working-class people.

“I have seen what's going on,” he said. “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. But I'd rather leave it to the states. Let the states decide.”