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9 Major Themes that Defined the First Year of Trump's Second Term
- Over the past year, President Donald Trump directed sweeping cuts, reducing federal employment by more than 317,000 through DOGE-led buyouts and reductions-in-force while pursuing deportations, overseas strikes, and 228 executive orders.
- Driven by a push to 'increase efficiency,' the administration created the Department of Government Efficiency to lead buyouts, close offices, dismantle the Education Department, cut 20,000 HHS jobs, and remove $2 billion in funding.
- Tariff-Driven trade shifts have raised costs and uncertainty for companies, with Elizabeth Renter noting `Much of the robust spending that we've seen over the past year has been driven primarily by people with assets and people with high incomes`.
- Federal courts and state lawsuits have checked several White House moves—from Guard deployments to agency defunding—and the Fed has faced subpoenas tied to renovation probes.
- Structural forces and policy uncertainty suggest prolonged economic headwinds, with Draho and Daco warning a jobless boom may persist as inflation remains above the Fed's 2% in the next year.
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Trump's Numbers, Second Term
Summary Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House: Job growth slowed, and the unemployment rate crept upward. Job-seekers now outnumber job openings. Price increases slowed according to the most commonly watched number. But they worsened according to the measure preferred by the Federal Reserve. Paychecks grew faster than inflation. Real weekly earnings of private-sector workers rose 1.4%. Economists estimate the economy grew …
Ask our journalists Laura-Julie Perreault and Janie Gosselin about the first year of US President Donald Trump's second term.
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Total News Sources68
Leaning Left16Leaning Right3Center35Last UpdatedBias Distribution65% Center
Bias Distribution
- 65% of the sources are Center
65% Center
L 30%
C 65%
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