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White House Weighs Trump Speeches on Affordability

November 12, 2025 at 7:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump’s advisers have had conversations about him traveling the country to give economy-focused speeches as they privately weigh a number of strategies to improve his standing on the issue,“ CNN reports.

“Trump’s advisers acknowledge that they have an affordability problem that the president has bristled at in public: Americans’ outlook on the economy is dour, and the administration’s efforts to ease their financial anxieties aren’t resonating.”

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