As war costs rise and trade disruptions rattle the global economy, Trump has shirked concerns that everyday expenses are becoming out-of-reach for Americans.
“We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” Trump said in March at a private White House event for Easter. “We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”
On Tuesday, the President defended his economic policies, which have been defined by controversial global tariffs, most of which were reversed by the Supreme Court in February and that the government must now refund. “If you go back to just before the war, for the last three months, inflation was at 1.7%,” he said.
Still, the Trump Administration appears anxious to rein in soaring gas prices as Americans grow weary of the war. Trump said he was “going to” suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gas tax to alleviate prices at the pump, although any pause would require congressional approval.
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