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The economic policy of the Donald Trump administration was characterized by the individual and corporate tax cuts, attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), trade protectionism, immigration restriction, deregulation focused on the energy and financial sectors, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over his term, Trump reduced federal taxes and increased federal spending, both of which significantly increased federal budget deficits and the National Debt.[1][2] The positive economic situation he inherited from the Obama administration[3][4][5] continued, with a labor market approaching full employment and measures of household income and wealth continuing to improve further into record territory.[6] Trump also implemented trade protectionism via tariffs, primarily on imports from China.[1] During Trump's first three years in office, the number of Americans without health insurance increased by 4.6 million (16%).[7][8] while his tax cuts favored the top earners, expensive, failed to deliver on Its promises[9] and worsened income inequality.
Trump took office at the height of the longest economic expansion in American history.[10] The 128-month (10.7-year) economic expansion that began in June 2009 abruptly ended at a peak in February 2020, with the U.S. entering a recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11] The U.S. unemployment rate, which had hit a 50-year low (3.5%) in February 2020, hit a 90-year high (14.7%) just two months later, matching Great Depression levels. In response, Trump signed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) on March 27, 2020 which helped maintain family incomes and savings during the crisis, but contributed to a $3.1 trillion budget deficit (14.9% GDP) for fiscal year 2020, the largest since 1945 relative to the size of the economy.[12][13] Trump left office with 3 million fewer jobs in the U.S. than when he took office, making Trump the only modern U.S. president to leave office with a smaller workforce.[10] Throughout his presidency, Trump mischaracterized the economy as the best in American history.[14]
Despite saying during the 2016 campaign he would eliminate the national debt in eight years,[15] Trump as president approved large increases in government spending, as well as the 2017 tax cut. As a result, the federal budget deficit increased by almost 50%, to nearly $1trillion (~$1.18 trillion in 2023) in 2019.[16] Under Trump, the U.S. national debt increased by 39%, reaching $27.75trillion by the end of his term; the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio also hit a post-World War II high.[17] Analysis has suggested that the economy would have grown without any intervention by the Trump administration.[18]
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^Marr, Chuck (March 5, 2024). "The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises".
^ abAndrew Van Dam (January 8, 2021). "Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. It's not just the pandemic". Washington Post.
^"Determination of the February 2020 Peak in US Economic Activity". June 8, 2020 – via NBER.org.
^"Monthly Budget Review for September 2020". cbo.gov. October 8, 2020.
^"Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery". New York Times. January 1, 2021.
^Kessler, Glenn (September 7, 2018). "President Trump's repeated claim: 'The greatest economy in the history of our country'". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
^Woodward, Bob (April 2, 2016). "In a revealing interview, Trump predicts a 'massive recession' but intends to eliminate the national debt in 8 years". The Washington Post.
^Long, Heather; Stein, Jeff (October 26, 2019). "The U.S. deficit hit $984 billion in 2019, soaring during Trump era". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
^Sloan, Allan; Podkul, Cezary (January 14, 2021). "Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It'll Weigh Down the Economy for Years". ProPublica/Washington Post.
^Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Schularick, Moritz; Sedláček, Petr (April 1, 2021). "The macroeconomic impact of Trump". Policy Studies. 42 (5–6): 580–591. doi:10.1080/01442872.2021.1909718. ISSN 0144-2872. S2CID 201376054.
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