{"id":353214,"date":"2025-12-17T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353214\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:20:14","slug":"white-house-vance-ramps-up-economic-sales-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353214\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Vance ramps up economic sales pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House will continue its economy-focused travel on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance appearing in Pennsylvania to talk about \u201cTrump\u2019s economic success\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/11\/trump-economy-ap-poll-00686464\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">polling<\/a> shows voters increasingly sour on the president\u2019s handling of the issue. <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, who also traveled to Pennsylvania last week, is slated to stop <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhatleyNC\/status\/2000646319447167348?s=20\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">in North Carolina<\/a> on Friday. Officials will have more clarity by then: The Labor Department is slated to release employment data for November and part of October this morning, then November inflation data on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Still, economists caution the numbers may not be as reliable as usual thanks to the lingering effects of the government shutdown. One example: The Department of Labor will not calculate an October unemployment rate because it was unable to conduct the necessary survey while shuttered. <\/p>\n<p>Shutdown aside, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently warned the government could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/jobs\/fed-chair-jerome-powell-says-u-s-may-be-drastically-overstating-jobs-numbers-741c635d?mod=article_inline\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">be dramatically overestimating<\/a> recent hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House will continue its economy-focused travel on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance appearing in Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-353214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}