Just days before Donald Trump celebrates three weeks back in the Oval Office, his tariff threats and his decision to let Elon Musk and his DOGE staffers disrupt the flow of cash from the U.S. Treasury is having an immediate impact on voters.
And it is not a good one, reports the Wall Street Journal.
On the same day the government reported job growth was weaker than expected, the Journal's Rachel Wolfe and Joel Pinsker are reporting that consumer confidence is "souring" as prices remain high — or are going up — meaning Trump's honeymoon is swiftly coming to an end.
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Case in point is Trump voter Paul Bisson, 58, who lives in San Antonio and who griped to the Journal, "I don’t like the turbulence. I don’t like the chaos in the market,” and pointed the finger at the man he just helped elect.
Admitting he was hoping to retire soon, he said those plans will now have to be put on hold over worries about threatened tariffs creating a trade war that will drive up prices even more.
“That will make the economy worse, and that’s not what we signed up for. We’ve already cut back. There’s no more cutting back to do," he told the Journal.
Fifty-three-year-old real-estate investor John Schinkel, who also voted for Trump, admitted he was "nervous" but will give Trump a grace period.
“I don’t blame Trump for the price of eggs right now,” he said. “No matter who’s in the White House, I’d give that person a year to get their policies established before I start blaming prices on consumer things like that," he suggested.
Sanjay Dayal, the founder of an electric vehicle charging company, admitted he is dealing with seeing his stock market investments down.
“It feels like we don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow,” he lamented.
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