Backstabber Watch

One Republican lawmaker told CNN that President Donald Trump is wrong about "issue number one." Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) appeared on the news network in a video released over the weekend. 

The US labor market, which in recent months had ground nearly to a halt, now appears to be entering a downward spiral. As reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, new data from corporate outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that employers in October announced 153,000 job cuts...

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."

With a temporary victory in hand after getting a tenuous ceasefire in place in Gaza, Donald Trump returned to the U.S., where the government is shut down, the shadow of the Jeffrey Epstein files hovers over him — and now Wall Street investors are being told by a key financial analyst that the U.S. is going broke.

President Donald Trump's ability to blame his predecessor for the deteriorating economic conditions in the United States is running out, the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote on Tuesday. 

Republicans may be fixing to crash the economy again — Republican presidents oversaw 10 of the last 11 recessions and the Republican Great Depression — and they’re doing it to satisfy the greed of the billionaires they serve.

New York City's 2025 Democratic mayoral primary experienced a major upset when, on Tuesday night, June 24, progressive New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — a self-described "democratic socialist" endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York)...

According to a Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted June 6-10, President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" — which narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, 215-214, and is now being considered in the U.S. Senate — is getting a negative response from many voters. 

Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi has been looking closer at the May jobs report, which was released last week. The more he examines it, however, the more his concern grows. 

Last Friday, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded. Moody’s, the ratings firm, announced that the U.S. government’s rising debt levels will grow further if the Trump Republican package of new tax cuts is enacted. 

Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell sounded the alarm Thursday as she warned that President Donald Trump is losing steam among his own voters amid growing economic worries – particularly over grocery prices.

During a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump aggressively defended his economic record. Trump insisted that inflation is way down under his watch and claimed that he is making the United States "affordable again." But...

A significant number of President Donald Trump’s supporters may have reached their “breaking point” as costs continue to climb, according to a new poll from Politico published Saturday.

Several major US corporations in the last month have announced plans to cut thousands of workers as layoffs in the American economy have reached their highest level since 2020, when much of the global economy was shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump has spent the past several weeks patting himself on the back for saving the American economy, but CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said that the new economic numbers fly in the face of those Trump claims. 

What happens when huge amounts of money pour into poorly understood and unregulated industries that promise spectacular profits for a few winners? At best, some investors lose their shirts while the lucky ones make fortunes. At worst, the bubble bursts and takes everyone down with it...

As fallout continues from the latest jobs report that showed a dramatic slowdown in job growth, business leaders are warning that the current market slowdown is “only the beginning,” and that the impacts of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are already well underway, Politico reported...

What’s the biggest single economic challenge facing working and middle-class Americans? Housing. Its supply isn’t nearly keeping up with demand. This means higher home prices and higher rents. 

Due to a combination of factors, the economy under Donald Trump is heading in the wrong direction which should raise alarms. That is the opinion of investment analyst and MSNBC contributor Steve Ratner who appeared on "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning with host Jonathan Lemire.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting some of the biggest names in finance are sounding the klaxon horn on decades of U.S. off-the-hinges borrowing.“Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has warned of a debt crisis akin to an ‘economic heart attack.’ 

The state of the United States' economy is much shakier than previously thought under President Donald Trump's leadership, according to one major international bank. 

Moody's Analytics delivered some bad news for the U.S. economy on Friday, May 16 when it downgraded the United States' credit rating. Moody's cited the country's growing national debt, which is up to $36 trillion, as the reason.