Trump intends to roll back federal environmental protections and efforts to address human-caused climate change. The price tag will be huge, Jon Talton writes.

Gallup's first poll since the Republican sweep of the 2024 election found Americans are more confident about the economy.

The American economy expanded at a healthy 2.8% annual pace from July through September on strong consumer spending and a surge in exports, the government said Wednesday, leaving unchanged its initial estimate of third-quarter growth.

The data show tariffs never fully delivered on Trump’s promised factory jobs. Nor did they provoke the avalanche of inflation that critics feared.

From enacting tariffs on foreign goods to slashing taxes for individuals and businesses, Trump’s economic populism is about to be put to the test.

The economy sped up in November and kept the U.S. on track for another strong quarter of growth, fueled by optimism about falling interest rates and the prospect of a pro-business Trump administration,

Americans’ confidence in the economy improved after Republicans won big in the 2024 election earlier this month, a survey released Tuesday found. The Gallup poll shows that Americans rank their confidence in the economy as -17,

The latest Yahoo News/YouGov results illustrate the powerful effect that partisanship can have on people’s perception of reality.

The shift in expectations about the economy’s future was driven by Republicans getting happier as Democrats turned sour.

There’s a pretty simple way to explain most of what happened in the 2024 presidential election.

Less than two weeks since Donald Trump’s victory, consumer sentiment in the Republican Party has skyrocketed. Democrats, meanwhile, are despondent.

While the incoming administration may not know exactly how to fix healthcare, the opportunity for substantive, system-wide change may be in front of us.