Will Trump Must Get Economy?

Last year, Donald Trump could not stop talking about the economy.

As a presidential candidate, he attacked Democrats for inflation and rode persistently bad green over High cost of living Immediately in the white house, promising fast relief though though economists warned In order for his plans to actually start the price larger.

Today’s business numbers of business as a reminder of how fast it could have presented his party, with political danger as elections.

The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August, which is my fellow Lidija works explainedThe sign is that the labor market seems to stop. Looking back, the news is even worse: The audit of Junn data shows that the labor market actually lost 13,000 jobs, which is the first negative number from December 2020. years.

There are other signs of trouble. A key measure of basic inflation rose over the summer As Trump Tariffs put pressure on prices, performing the costs of things like furniture, devices and clothing. Production activity was It decreases six months.

Only what will happen to the economy between the current and next years of the middle election will be immediately clear. (And today’s news can provide a trump card: the dark labor market can mean that your long lasting asks from interest rate, as my colleague Kolbi Smith Today it was pointed out.)

But what is currently clear, at least, is that the president has a problem.

A A recent Gallup poll They found that his approval rating in economics fell to 37 percent in August, of 42 percent in February. It is a steep decline of its average approval approval evaluation during its first term, which was 52 percent.

When you dig into specific questions, it doesn’t look better. A survey At the end of last month by economists and Yougow, they thought that inflation was a top issue for voters – and only 34 percent of them approve their handling of the question, in accordance with the survey.

And then the vibration is – The feeling Uneases, which was measured by President Biden and Vice President Kamal Harris last fall. Last month, 63 percent of Americans thought the economy had worsened, Gallup found – one point greater than 62 percent, in October 2024. believed it was before the election.

Democrats in the morning take a moment like a hairpiece point, eager to hammers home voters what Trump did Make an economy of your How they try to try to order the congress control next year. Trump passed an expansive reduction in the right tax and conducted the steep tariffs they have PRICES daily goods and raw materials. And he is also trying to make more control via historically independent federal reserve.

“The American people feel the influence of dangerous policies of dangerous commands of Trump administration in the community after the community”, representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, a home minority leader, said Friday in the statement. He added that Trump and Republicans have promised to reduce the cost of living, but failed.

Democrats are struggling to combine how to hit Trump, but many took a key lesson from loss in valoping in the 2024 election. Years. They believe that laser focus on the economy can help win in difficult races next year. The voters last year rated the economy as their top problem in each by pre-election surveys in New York Collage and they came out that the surveys exceeded that Trump surpassed Harris among those who believed in poor condition.

Trump White House defended his handling of the economy in the statement on Friday. Republicans say that they are a lifetime life, and that Trump will be able to shape what voters care about what happens.

“Will the economy always be the top of the voter? Yes. But voters taken care of trade, immigration or criminal pre-trump, and that is that Trump thought about the things he was represented, said Bill Stepien, Republican said.

“So, don’t assume that President Trump reacts to any question next November, because he will try to start the discussion in his direction,” Stepien added.

Indeed, Trump is already working hard to ensure that middle and it is not about anything but economy. He openly said he believes that his commission was in Washington – who said he intends to expand to Cities like Chicago And maybe the new Orleans – will play well for the next fall.

“I think it will be a big, big topic for medium products,” he said last week, referring to the crime question, “and I think the Republicans will really do well.”

In his words

Which Trump did not say

“Looks like we lost India and Russia to deep, darkest, China. Let them have a long and prosperous future together!”

– President Trump, TruthFriday, September 5

Days after leaders of three main Eastern powers – China, Russia and India – Handed hands and distributed the hot greetingTrump admitted that India was transferred from the US and towards American opponents.

But in his social media site, Trump did not mention the role he played in the pushing of the Earth.

In August, he imposed 50 percent of tariffs on India for the import of Russian oil. Trump also claimed that he “resolved” a military conflict between India and Pakistan. That Irked india leaderPrime Minister Narendra Modi, who told him that the participation had nothing to do with a possible fire.

Trump’s post, As they wrote my colleagues of Broadwater and David Sanger todayIt was an unusual recognition that his dull approach had an involuntary consequences.

Moment

Rarely look at the White House

Melania Trump stores an unusually low public profile for the first lady, but on Thursday she is she appeared together with prominent technological executives for a round table on artificial intelligence. My colleague Hayyun Jiang was there to take a moment – and Shawn McCreesh, Who covers a white house, it’s here to tell us what happened.

It is an anomaly for us at the White House when Melania Trump decides to visit the visit, as well as Thursday. In contrast to the performances of her husband, her events are an invariably low key, and this one did not deviate.

Her fashion was flawless. She was reading from the binders. She didn’t take the questions and didn’t do anything surprising, as she looked like Silicon Valley Bigvigs like Altman alone. If the event has revealed anything, it was its continuation of focus on technology. So much from what this first lady (who has its crypto memecoin) in Washington had to do with Deepfakes, Cattfishid and now, Ai

He also offered passage views on MelaniaWorld, which makes one of the more subtle subplots in the spacious and roccolian drama that is Trump Administration.

The most reliable, Hailey Harrison, who, like her boss, is holding an extremely low profile, on Thursday. Her official title is the chief of staff the first lady; She and Melania Trump worked closely from the first Trump administration. Harrison sat on a round table on Thursday and was placed in AI working group in the White House – although we didn’t hear from her.

The planned construction of the fair is expected near the eastern wing to push some of the staff of the first lady from their offices there and in the White House, which excites them greatly. I was told that this week I expect to see much more first ladies in the coming months. Time will say.

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