{"id":42725,"date":"2025-08-04T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:39:09","slug":"donald-trumps-policies-under-fire-as-democrats-target-tax-cuts-and-trade-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42725\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s policies under fire as Democrats target tax cuts and trade wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | Six months into his comeback term, Donald Trump has taken full ownership of the US economy. For better or worse, his party must now sell it to voters.<\/p>\n<p>The president has hailed the world\u2019s \u201chottest\u201d economy \u2013 and found others to blame for any wobbles. When Friday\u2019s jobs report showed a dramatic slowdown in hiring, he fired the head of the agency that published it. He\u2019s pinned some frustrations on his predecessor Joe Biden, and continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/north-america\/i-would-have-fired-him-trump-powell-squabble-over-fed-reno-costs-20250725-p5mho6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">berate the Federal Reserve for what he considers too-high interest rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | Six months into his comeback term, Donald Trump has taken full ownership of the US economy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-42725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}