Trump is delivering the goods but needs to stop promising the moon

President Trump laid out a strong case Wednesday night for his administration’s success in steering the economy away from the Biden years, which threatened real collapse.Inflation is in check, with energy and housing costs down; some grocery staples, like eggs, are certainly cheaper now.Crucially, wage growth is finally outpacing inflation.Yet we have a long way to go to make up for years of stagnation that have put affordability front and center in the national conversation.So getting real wages up, and general price hikes under control, must be a top priority.Jobs are not where we’d like them to be, but a substantial part of that is because Trump is making good on his promise to shrink federal employment.Uncle Sam’s headcount, despite rapid growth in the Obama and Biden years, is now under 2014 levels.Since government workers are paid by taxes, reducing their numbers is a net positive for America.

And once these folks are absorbed into the productive, tax-paying sectors of the economy, the transition will pay off doubly.And this is starting to happen: As the president said, 100% of all new jobs have been in the private sector.The full impact of tariffs hasn’t been incorporated into manufacturing and employment figures yet, but they certainly haven’t had the disastrous effect that doomer economists (left and right) predicted.Similarly, the tax cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill won’t really be felt until next year — likewise, the huge positive impact of Trump’s energy policies, which are already lowering pump prices and electric rates nationwide, and are a huge plus to economic growth as well.

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