From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.
This is the Daily.
As president, Trump has rolled out his economic agenda.
The assumption was
that he would quickly scale back his most aggressive policies once they began to scare consumers and the financial markets.
That assumption turned out to be wrong.
Today, my colleagues, economics reporter Ben Castleman.
And White House reporter Maggie Haberman on.
Why the Trump economic plan may be backfiring and why Trump doesn't seem to mind.
It's Friday, March 21st.
Hey, Ben.
Hi, Michael.
Good to have you back in the studio.
It's been a while.
It has been a while.
Happy to be here.
As you know,
we're two months into the Trump administration and therefore two months into the Trump economy.
And he comes to office with a set of sweeping economics promises
that the business community and the stock market and polling shows Americans generally are very excited about more prosperity,