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WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America's factories and eroded the middle class.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the real world, President Donald Trump is struggling to stop inflation, rout the Iranian government and restore American manufacturing with tariffs.
BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey (AP) -- The political group associated with President Donald Trump is spending $10 million on television and digital advertisements in the Texas Senate race, according to a Saturday filing with the Federal Election Commission.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has spent 20 months promising that America was on the cusp of an economic boom. But Friday's surprisingly positive jobs report ultimately provoked frustration from Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jeanine Pirro this week found out there's a tradeoff between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has been losing his own battle to cut interest rates.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday gets to ring the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the golden confines of the Oval Office, a symbolic act that reflects how he has increasingly tied his presidency to the stock market.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Sunday surveyed several of his construction projects around the nation's capital, suggesting afterward that his redevelopment of the East Potomac Golf Links would enable it to host a premier tournament.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America has been rushing into an artificial intelligence future without much of a plan to stop what could be catastrophic job losses.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump sees America's 250th anniversary as a chance to get the country excited again -- about Donald Trump.
SHERMAN, Texas (AP) -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang -- whose work helped enable artificial intelligence -- stressed in an Associated Press interview Tuesday that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, "love" it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that federal housing finance regulator Bill Pulte, his pick for acting director of national intelligence, would not be his "permanent" choice for the critical security post.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world is getting more uptight about lending money to President Donald Trump's government -- causing interest rates to climb in ways that are worsening affordability pressures, hampering economic growth and creating a new risk for Republicans in November's midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will increase the tariffs charged on cars and trucks from the European Union next week to 25%, a move that could jolt the world economy at a fragile moment.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated University of Minnesota economist Christopher Phelan to be the next chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, a key position for conducting analyses of the economy and the administration's policies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Friday signed a pair of executive orders aimed at showing his commitment to improving home affordability -- a key issue for many voters going into November's election for control of the House and Senate.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to painting high oil prices as a positive.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to painting high oil prices as a positive.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries -- an effort that comes after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's previous use of tariffs by declaring an economic emergency.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth, but instead it has kicked off with job losses, rising gasoline prices and more uncertainty about America's future.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump wants to keep home prices high, bypassing calls to ramp up construction so people can afford what has been a ticket to the middle class.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that he is nominating the government economist Brett Matsumoto to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after having previously accused the federal agency of releasing low monthly jobs numbers in order to make him look bad.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he'll tap former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell in May -- with Trump believing that he can finally get the booming economy that he promised to voters.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he's picked a strange backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town where ski chalets for vacations cost a cool $4.4 million.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump delivered a politically charged speech Wednesday carried live in prime time on network television, seeking to pin the blame for economic challenges on Democrats while announcing he is sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said in a White House speech Wednesday night that he was sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas, indicating that tariffs were funding the payments as he tried to reassure a worried public about the health of the economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump tried in a live speech Wednesday night from the White House to convince the American people that they are wrong to worry about the U.S. economy, saying any challenges are being repaired.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump intends to preview his agenda for next year and beyond in a live speech from the White House on Wednesday night, remarks that come at a crucial juncture as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump plans to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to highlight his efforts to reduce inflation even as fears mount about a worsening job market and amid signs that Americans are still feeling squeezed by high prices.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year's global meeting.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year in Miami and will "stop all payments and subsidies" to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year's global meeting.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is increasingly counting on the tech sector and the development of artificial intelligence to deliver on his economic agenda, a reality laid bare this week as he hosted Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is adjusting his messaging strategy to win over voters who are worried about the cost of living with plans to emphasize new tax breaks and show progress on fighting inflation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what is about to be a six-day shutdown -- with President Donald Trump saying that layoffs are occurring.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations talking place to end what has so far been a five-day shutdown.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has decided not to let the government shutdown interfere with a stop in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to salute the Navy as it celebrates its 250th anniversary.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will put import taxes of 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At one of his final rallies before the 2024 election, then-candidate Donald Trump warned that Black Americans were losing their jobs in droves and that things would get even worse if he did not return to the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market has gone from healthy to lethargic during President Donald Trump's first seven months back in the White House, as hiring has collapsed and inflation has started to climb once again as his tariffs take hold.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he says show the U.S. economy is solid following a jobs report last week that raised red flags and led to the Republican firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump began imposing higher import taxes on dozens of countries Thursday just as the economic fallout of his monthslong tariff threats has begun to cause visible damage to the U.S. economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump began imposing higher import taxes on dozens of countries Thursday just as the economic fallout of his monthslong tariff threats has begun to cause visible damage to the U.S. economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was set to officially begin levying higher import taxes on dozens of countries Thursday, just as the economic fallout of his monthslong tariff threats has begun to create visible damage for the U.S. economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the coronavirus surged during President Donald Trump's first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of testing so the deadly outbreak looked less severe. When he lost the 2020 election, he had a ready-made reason: The vote count was fraudulent.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an ironclad deadline, administration officials assured the public.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an ironclad deadline, administration officials assured the public.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that set new tariffs on a wide swath of U.S. trading partners to go into effect on Aug. 7 -- the next step in his trade agenda that will test the global economy and sturdiness of American alliances built up over decades.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump rattled off a number to shame Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell about the renovation costs of the Fed's headquarters -- and America's central banker dared to correct him. Live on video.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House budget director Russell Vought suggested in a Thursday letter that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is in violation of government building rules in the renovation of the Fed's headquarters.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won't bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once again, President Donald Trump's biggest policy plans were stopped in their tracks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump wants the world to know he's no "chicken" just because he's repeatedly backed off high tariff threats.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might "have two dolls instead of 30 dolls," but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
