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SHOT: After spending his entire campaign lying to working families that he would focus on lowering prices, Donald Trump is now spending his time <\/strong>purging<\/strong><\/a> the Kennedy Center and appointing himself chair\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cTrump says he’ll remove Kennedy Center board members, name himself chair\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump, who had a tense relationship with the Kennedy Center in his first term, now appears to be taking control of the art institution and removing adversaries from its board<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHASER: \u2026 while consumer sentiment falls and inflation projections soar thanks to his reckless agenda, \u201ccausing Americans across the political spectrum to feel considerably more pessimistic about the economy than they did before President Trump took office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across the political spectrum to feel considerably more pessimistic about the economy than they did before President Trump took office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConsumer sentiment fell about 5%<\/strong> in the University of Michigan\u2019s preliminary February survey of consumers to its lowest reading since July 2024. Expectations of inflation in the year ahead jumped from 3.3% in January to 4.3%<\/strong>, the second month in a row of large increases and highest reading since November 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SHOT: After spending his entire campaign lying to working families that he would focus on lowering prices, Donald Trump is now spending his time purging the Kennedy Center and appointing himself chair\u2026 Axios: \u201cTrump says he’ll remove Kennedy Center board members, name himself chair\u201d \u201cTrump, who had a tense relationship with the Kennedy Center in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSHOT\/CHASER: As Inflation Jumps and Consumer Confidence Falls, Trump Focuses on \u201cPurge\u201d of the Kennedy Center - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/shot-chaser-as-inflation-jumps-and-consumer-confidence-falls-trump-focuses-on-purge-of-the-kennedy-center\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-09T21:22:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-09T21:22:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/shot-chaser-as-inflation-jumps-and-consumer-confidence-falls-trump-focuses-on-purge-of-the-kennedy-center\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/shot-chaser-as-inflation-jumps-and-consumer-confidence-falls-trump-focuses-on-purge-of-the-kennedy-center\/\",\"name\":\"SHOT\/CHASER: As Inflation Jumps and Consumer Confidence Falls, Trump Focuses on \u201cPurge\u201d of the Kennedy Center - 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