One Trump voter told NBC News that while she believes Trump “deep down” wants to boost the economy, “he is busy out of the country” and focused on “demolishing the White House.”
The shutdown is compounding problems that have intensified broader anxiety over an economy that in recent months has been marked by lingering high prices for many consumer goods, rough jobs numbers, mass layoffs at major companies — including Amazon and Target — and an uptick in inflation.
That stagnation has in recent months eroded the high approval marks Donald Trump once enjoyed on the economy.
The bleak picture has some Republicans sounding the alarm to the White House — even though delivering the news isn’t easy.
“No one wants to tell the president he’s losing on the economy,” said a Republican strategist who said they recently warned the White House about their concerns.
Remember how one of the main reasons people voted for Trump was the economy? CNN exit polls on election day showed the top two priorities of Trump voters were immigration and the economy. Are those who voted based on the economy happy now?