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Trump hits the road to sell economic wins, as Republicans brace for high-stakes midterm showdown
Trump to deliver speech in Iowa on energy, economy
President Trump is headed to Iowa to push his affordability agenda. FOX Business host Taylor Riggs breaks down the current economic wins Trump could highlight, including GDP growth and real wage increases.
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Facing a rough political climate as his party aims to hold their House and Senate majorities in this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump on Tuesday kicks off what the White House says will be weekly stops in states with key ballot box showdowns.
It’s part of the president’s push to showcase he’s working to combat rising prices, a top issue on the minds of Americans. And as the Trump administration reels amid two fatal shootings by federal agents in Minnesota this month of U.S. citizens protesting aggressive tactics to deport millions of undocumented migrants, it’s also an effort to pivot to the economy from immigration.
Trump’s first stop is Iowa, a one-time Midwestern battleground turned red-leaning state the president carried by double digits in 2024 where Republicans are now playing defense as they defend open Senate and gubernatorial seats, as well as three competitive GOP-controlled House districts.
In suburban Des Moines, Trump will visit a local business, meet with lawmakers, and deliver an address on the economy.
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President Donald Trump launched the year-long countdown to America’s 250th anniversary, with a stop at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, on July 3, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«The economy is good. It’s all good. Prices are coming way down, and we have a lot of very positive news,» Trump touted as he departed for Iowa.
And ahead of the trip, a White House official told Fox News Digital, «Inflation has cooled, economic growth is accelerating, and real wages are up for American workers.»
Deep concerns over inflation boosted Trump and Republicans to sweeping victories at the ballot box in 2024, as they won back the White House and Senate and keep their House majority.
But Democrats say their decisive victories in November’s 2025 elections, and their overperformances in special elections and other ballot box showdowns last year, were fueled by their laser focus on affordability amid persistent inflation.
The president’s approval on the economy has consistently hovered in negative territory since last March, and has dragged down his overall approval ratings during his first year back in the White House.
Among the most recent national polls — a Wall Street Journal survey conducted earlier this month put Trump’s approval rating on the economy at 44%-54%, and he stood at 35%-56% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll in the field this past weekend.
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«Donald Trump has tanked the economy for working families, making the cost-of-living an inescapable hell for millions of Americans. Everyday Americans are drowning under the weight of rising costs, flat wages, high unemployment, and record layoffs — it’s no wonder they’re concerned about making ends meet,» Democratic National Committee Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer argued in a statement.
But the Wall Street Journal poll indicated that congressional Republicans had an 11-point advantage over their Democratic rivals when it came to which party was better equipped to handle the economy.
Iowa is friendly ground for Trump, who convincingly won the state in his two presidential victories and one re-election defeat.
President Donald Trump celebrates his victory in Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses, at a campaign event in Des Moines on Jan. 15, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
But a memo from Democratic National Committee (DNC) Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman claimed, «However hard Trump tries to explain away his failing economy, it’s abundantly clear that Americans aren’t buying it, especially in Iowa, where Trump’s policies are raising costs for Iowans, devastating Iowa’s agricultural economy, and destroying thousands of jobs that working Iowans rely on.»
The White House disagrees, with the official arguing that «Iowans are better off with President Trump and Republican leadership,» noting that gas prices in the state «ranked the second lowest in the nation.»
And pointing to the various tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump’s domestic legislative achievement so far in his second term, the official said, «Iowans could see their wages rise up to $61,000 over the next four years.»
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The GOP, as it works to hold its congressional majorities, is dealing with a low propensity issue: MAGA voters who don’t always go to the polls when Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot.
But even though he’s not on the ballot this year, Trump pledged last week that he’ll be on the campaign trail «a lot» on behalf of fellow Republicans running in the midterms.
President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to deliver remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 2025. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Trump made stops last month and earlier this month in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan to highlight his accomplishments on the economy.
And the weekly trips advertised by the White House are a big change from Trump’s first term, when the president didn’t start his campaign travel blitz until Labor Day.
Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview earlier this month that «the President of the United States is our secret weapon… He’s laser focused.»
«We got to make sure we turn our voters out, and we got to make sure that we have people energized. And there’s nobody that can energize our base more than President Trump,» Gruters added.
And the White House official said that the president «has always been most in his element when he’s interacting with everyday Americans, and the President’s domestic travel will allow him to most effectively underscore how this Administration has and continues to deliver economic prosperity for the American people.»
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Democrats are just fine with Trump hitting the road.
«Trump has historically low approval ratings because he has put America last, sold out working families to hand out favors to billionaires, and made life unaffordable. Hitting the road will only remind Americans of his failures and force GOP candidates to tie themselves to his cratering presidency,» DNC chair Ken Martin argued in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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EEUU y China reanudaron en París las negociaciones comerciales para preparar la cumbre entre Trump y Xi Jinping
Las delegaciones de Estados Unidos y China completaron este domingo la primera jornada de una nueva ronda de consultas económicas y comerciales en la sede de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) en París, en un encuentro que continuará el lunes y que busca allanar el terreno para la visita del presidente Donald Trump a Beijing a finales de mes. Las conversaciones arrancaron a las 10:05 hora local y se prolongaron hasta las 18:00.
La cita, que es la sexta del mecanismo bilateral inaugurado en Ginebra en mayo de 2025, reúne al secretario del Tesoro estadounidense, Scott Bessent, y al representante comercial Jamieson Greer, por el lado americano, frente al vicepresidente chino He Lifeng y el principal negociador comercial de Beijing, Li Chenggang. Sobre la mesa figuran los aranceles vigentes, los controles de exportación de tecnología avanzada, el comercio de minerales estratégicos —en particular las tierras raras— y las compras chinas de productos agrícolas estadounidenses.
El contexto en el que se celebra esta ronda es radicalmente distinto al de las cinco anteriores. El 20 de febrero, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos anuló, por seis votos contra tres, los aranceles que Trump había impuesto mediante la Ley de Poderes Económicos de Emergencia Internacional (IEEPA, por sus siglas en inglés), el instrumento jurídico en el que Washington había basado su principal palanca de presión comercial. Trump respondió de inmediato aplicando un arancel global del 15% bajo la Sección 122 de la Ley Arancelaria de 1974, pero ese mecanismo tiene una caducidad legal de 150 días, hasta mediados de julio, lo que limita su alcance y añade incertidumbre al calendario negociador.
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El fallo fortaleció la posición china. Analistas del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores y del Centro de Estudios Estratégicos e Internacionales señalaron que Beijing llega a París con mayor margen de maniobra, dado que Washington ha perdido su principal herramienta arancelaria de respuesta rápida. China, por su parte, conserva intacto uno de sus instrumentos de presión más eficaces: las restricciones a la exportación de tierras raras, materiales esenciales para la industria aeroespacial y de semiconductores. Empresas del sector en Estados Unidos enfrentan escasez creciente de itrio, un elemento usado en recubrimientos resistentes al calor para motores de reactores.
A esa presión estructural se suma el impacto de la guerra en Medio Oriente. El cierre del estrecho de Ormuz, tras las operaciones militares estadounidenses e israelíes contra Irán, ha interrumpido el paso de aproximadamente el 20% del suministro mundial de petróleo, según Reuters. Para China, la dependencia es aún más pronunciada: cerca del 45% de sus importaciones de crudo transitan por esa vía. La disrupción energética añade urgencia a ambas partes. Para Washington, la guerra también ha intensificado las necesidades de abastecimiento de minerales críticos para uso militar, lo que refuerza el interés en alcanzar acuerdos con Beijing sobre tierras raras.
Bessent dijo el jueves pasado que el diálogo económico entre los dos países “avanza”, en una declaración que el Departamento del Tesoro distribuyó antes del viaje a París. China, por su parte, envió el viernes un comunicado de su ministerio de Comercio en el que indicó que ambas partes abordarán “cuestiones comerciales y económicas de interés mutuo”, fórmula habitual de Beijing para estas citas. La agencia oficial Xinhua publicó un comentario el domingo en el que sostuvo que un progreso “significativo” en la cooperación bilateral podría devolver confianza a una economía global “cada vez más frágil”.
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Las cinco rondas anteriores del mecanismo —celebradas en Ginebra, Londres, Estocolmo, Madrid y Kuala Lumpur entre mayo y octubre de 2025— desembocaron en la tregua comercial de Busan, acordada por Trump y el presidente chino Xi Jinping al margen de la cumbre del Foro de Cooperación Económica Asia-Pacífico (APEC) en Corea del Sur. En virtud de ese pacto, en vigor por un año, China se comprometió a comprar 12 millones de toneladas métricas de soja estadounidense en la campaña 2025 y 25 millones en la de 2026. Funcionarios del Tesoro han indicado que Beijing ha cumplido hasta ahora con esos compromisos.
Sin embargo, no todo el escenario es de distensión. Esta semana, la administración Trump lanzó una nueva investigación bajo la Sección 301 de la Ley de Comercio contra China por presuntas prácticas comerciales desleales, lo que introduce un factor de tensión adicional en la mesa de París. Las exportaciones chinas a Estados Unidos cayeron un 11% en los dos primeros meses del año frente al mismo período de 2025, aunque las exportaciones totales de China al resto del mundo crecieron cerca de un 22% en ese lapso.
Los analistas son escépticos ante la posibilidad de un avance comercial de calado en esta ronda. Scott Kennedy, experto en economía china del Centro de Estudios Estratégicos e Internacionales, señaló a Reuters que el objetivo mínimo de ambas partes es “mantener las cosas unidas y evitar una ruptura y una reescalada de tensiones”. Trump tiene previsto visitar China entre el 31 de marzo y el 2 de abril, en lo que sería el primer viaje de un presidente estadounidense a ese país desde su primera visita en 2017. Beijing no ha confirmado oficialmente las fechas, práctica habitual en la diplomacia china. Durante aquella visita de Estado, Washington anunció compromisos de inversión por valor de unos 250.000 millones de dólares.
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The United States is left vulnerable even by its own naturalized U.S. citizens from hostile foreign lands, proving a free country can be exposed to security risks by the very freedoms the Constitution endows, an expert warned on Fox News.
«That’s partially because of legal reasons: They can’t just monitor constitutionally protected free speech and opinions after they become a naturalized citizen, indefinitely, just to keep tabs on them,» Mauro Institute president Ryan Mauro told Fox News on Saturday.
«They legally can’t do it, and they also don’t have the resources to do it.»
Just this month alone, the U.S. has experienced four attacks with ties to naturalized citizenship.
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The U.S. has seen four attacks in recent weeks in connection to naturalized citizens. (Fox News)
- March 1 – Austin, Texas, bar shooting
- March 7 – New York City attempted bombing (parents of suspects were naturalized citizens)
- March 12 – Old Dominion University shooting
- March 12 – West Bloomfield, Michigan, synagogue attack
«There’s a bit of a jihad olympics going on, which is where you have the Sunni radicals like ISIS competing with the Shiite radicals of the Iranian regime because they need attention in order to survive and in order settle the argument of who has Allah’s blessing so that they can trigger the apocalypse,» Mauro said.
Surveillance footage shows Ayman Mohamad Ghazali inside a Phantom Fireworks store in Livonia, Michigan, where he purchased more than $2,000 worth of fireworks days before the synagogue attack on March 12. (Obtained by NYPost)
«That’s what they both want to do,» Mauro said.
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Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was identified as the shooter at Old Dominion University on Thursday, March 12. (AP Photo)
The process of citizenship revocation has been a hotly debated topic during the second Trump administration, and the spate of four terror attacks amid the latest Israel-U.S. war on Iran may increase scrutiny on the vetting process.
«A person is subject to revocation of naturalization if the person becomes a member of, or affiliated with, the Communist party, other totalitarian party, or terrorist organization within five years of his or her naturalization,» the U.S. Grounds for Revocation of Naturalization reads.
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Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Pictured is Ibrahim Kayumi family’s home. (U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York and Greg Wehner for Fox News Digital)
Mauro’s institute is not constrained by federal law in vetting potential terrorist ideology of naturalized citizens like the Justice Department is, he noted.
«That’s why I personally have set up a civilian intelligence team that does do that type of thing,» Mauro said. «And why we’ve been so successful is because whereas the government has to be very careful not to launch investigations based off of just a mere suspicion or an unpopular opinion, civilians are free to comb through social media and just find people and report them.»
U.S. freedoms even protect suspected terrorists, he added.
«If they do come across someone who is expressing support for a terrorist organization, it still gets tricky,» he lamented. «You would think, oh, at that point you can revoke it and just get rid of the people because that would make sense, but the question is membership and affiliation.
The Austin, Texas, bar shooter was an Iran sympathizer and believed to have conducted a terrorist attack in the U.S. to retaliate after Israel killed the Iranian supreme leader. (KTBC)
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«I mean, there’ll be a lot of headaches just over those words. At what point does it go from, oh, I agree with them, versus actually being affiliated with them as like a unit?»
Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department, the FBI and multiple agencies within the Department of Homeland Security for comment on this story. The State Department redirected us to the latter two federal departments.
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