{"id":92494,"date":"2025-12-18T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/92494\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:05:13","slug":"americans-disapprove-of-trumps-handling-of-the-economy-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/92494\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans disapprove of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/17\/nx-s1-5645003\/trump-poll-economy-approval\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new poll<\/a> shows more Americans than ever disapprove of President Donald Trump&#8217;s handling of the economy. The NPR\/PBS News\/Marist poll finds just 36 percent of Americans approve of Trump&#8217;s handling of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>While Americans don&#8217;t seem to have much faith in either party when it comes to the economy, Democrats are slightly more trusted to handle it at 37 percent compared to the Republicans at 33.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Matters host Craig Cohen (audio and video above) discusses that story and the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup with the help of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkPJonesTX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark Jones<\/a> of  Rice University and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nancylsims?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nancy Sims<\/a> of the University of Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new poll shows more Americans than ever disapprove of President Donald Trump&#8217;s handling of the economy. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145,918,56,58,4978,57,66,13451,43441,223,5260,287],"class_list":["post-92494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-mark-jones","tag-nancy-sims","tag-news","tag-political-roundup","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}