The Trump administration comes into power with many policy goals, including economic initiatives like enacting significant tax cuts; imposing broad-based and significant tariffs; sweeping raids, mass deportations and tighter immigration controls;

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,

It wasn’t enough, and the electorate swung from the left back to the right, in Trump’s direction. He won the narrowest popular-vote victory in the past two decades. This narrative about the election is not hard to defend in part because the evidence for the role of inflation in particular is so robust.

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

This dichotomy shows up neatly in the latest University of Michigan consumer sentiment data. The sentiment index for Republicans jumped from 53.6 in October to 69.1 in November, putting it at the highest level since shortly after President Joe Biden took office in 2021.

In analyzing the loss, Harris’s team also credits the Trump campaign with reaching sporadic voters, especially young men, through new media channels.

Every four years, we elect a new president to lead our nation. Also referred to as "the leader of the free world," this person is often judged and associated with how the economy is doing when

Liberal journalists are rich and isolated in a bubble full of rich journalists. It is no surprise that they didn't understand how voters viewed the economy.

"The U.S economy is the envy of the world," said Rutgers Business School finance professor Parul Jain. "Why didn’t that message get through to the electorate?” “There’s always a big lag between objective economic indicators and public opinion ...

President-elect Donald Trump won Pennsylvania after losing the state in 2020. Scott Pelley visited to find out what was behind the shift this election.

Donald Trump’s trade plan for 2025 would hit China and Mexico hard as well as cause global damage. But he will struggle to implement it in full

Nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants are the backbone of some industries, and they pay billions in taxes for services they never receive.