I voted for Trump and am not a fan of this. He's been doing a ton of terrible stuff the past few weeks. Very disappointing. Definitely liked the first few months he was in office.
Don't fire people for reporting data though.
> downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure
But I guess not far from the mental gymnastic of "this is not happening due to flip flopping on tariffs".
I am sure as things get worse many people will use this same excuse of "But I didn't know he was going to do this" excuse to distance themselves for the mess which is coming.
For now yay! for massaged data going forward.
Who was predicting a downturn in 2025? What predictions of a downturn were being published in December 2024?
The fact of the matter is is that the numbers at the 2024 were looking great:
> Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming.
* https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/biden-economy-donal...
And the only predictions of a downturn in 2025 was if Trump made good on his threats of tariffs:
* https://chamber.ca/news/trumps-25-tariff-threat-new-analysis...
So you voted for tariffs by voting for Trump, and by voting for tariffs you voted for economic instability. There was nothing in the pre-Trump policies and economic thinking that would have caused an economic downturn.
Further, you voted for the gutting and privatization government functions: