That’s not going to happen. With all the hoopla around the tariff decision this news has slid under the radar:
U.S. growth slowed more than expected near the end of 2025 as the government shutdown impacted spending and investment, while a key inflation metric showed high prices are still a factor for the economy, according to data released Friday.
Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, according to the Commerce Department, well below the Dow Jones estimate for a 2.5% gain.
Consumer spending increased at a slower pace for the period while government spending tumbled sharply in a quarter marked by the record-length shutdown. The department estimated that the shutdown subtracted about 1 percentage point from growth, though it added that the exact impacts “cannot be quantified.”
For the full year in 2025, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.2% pace, down from the 2.8% increase in 2024.
Trump’s saying that the GDP numbers would be massively better if it weren’t for the shutdown but, of course, he could have done something about that himself and chose to concentrate on his Nobel ambitions and destroying the East Wing instead. And he’s wrong. It may have caused caused some of it but the YUGE growth Trump predicted when he came into office would have off set it if it had actually happened.