US Economy Did NOT grow as fast as last months report said….

No surprise to this dog who posted that he did NOT believe Trump’s people ‘rosey’ economy story for their boss tom see and probably nobody get fired….

Persistent polling shows that Americans KNOW the economy is NOT what Donald Trump promise and those who read the new KNOW that the bills will come in for Hegseth’s military spending and the expansion of the immigration actions with the loss of migrant revenue ….

Oh?

And to top things off?

$4.00 to $5.00 a gallon gas prices and higher diesel price for truckers delivering stuff to stores…

Shhhhh!

Don’t tell people the US Govt. is getting ready to REFUND the Trump tariff money ($150 Billion?) that he said he was goon a send in $2,500 checks with to foolish believers .

 

The American economy, slowed by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, grew at a sluggish 0.5% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in downgrade of its previous estimate.

U.S. gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — decelerated in the fourth quarter after registering impressive growth of 4.4% from July through September and 3.8% from April through June. The latest number was marked down from the Commerce Department’s previous estimate of 0.7% fourth-quarter growth.

Federal government spending and investment fell at a 16.6% annual pace because of the shutdown, lopping 1.16 percentage points off fourth-quarter GDP growth. Consumer spending expanded 1.9%, down a notch from the previous estimate and from 3.5% in the second quarter. Spending on goods — such as cars and clothing — grew just 0.3%, down from 3% in the July-September period.

For all of 2025, the economy grew 2.1% last year, slower than 2.8% in 2024 and 2.9% in 2023.

Business investment, excluding housing, increased at a 2.4% pace, likely reflecting money being poured into artificial intelligence, but the increase was down from 3.2% in the third quarter….

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The economic outlook for this year is hazy after the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran drove up energy prices and disrupted global commerce.

America’s job market slumped last year — recording the weakest hiring outside a recession since 2002 — but has been up and down so far in 2026: Employers added a healthy 160,000 jobs in January, slashed 133,000 in February, then created a surprising 178,000 in March…..

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Trump trying to sell Affordability‘????