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Originally Posted by GGG
Economic performance by most measures is relatively unchanged from the Obama administration. So he isn't doing worse in arguably the most important measure of success (also the measure that is least in the presidents control and has a long carry over from previous actions)
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the argument can be made that Trump actually hasn't done anything with respect to policy however.
so the performance of the economy has stayed on the same trajectory that it was prior the election. ie Obama's policies are the reason for the current trajectory
What were his main economic moves?
1) pulled out the the TTP (which incidentally wasn't even in affect yet)
2) EO'd Keystone (again, that something else that hasn't actually started)
3) pulled out of the Paris Climate accord
4) froze hiring on federal workers
That's it. None of those would have significantly affected the economy. the PCC pullout might, but that just happened recently, so that hasn't done anything to the current economy
one can make an argument for 'confidence' particularly in projecting possible taxcuts, but that remains to be seen what/how that takes form,,, and healthcare repeal, which will affect 6% of the total economy