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Articles / Government / White House Languid economic sentiment mirrors ‘92 pre-Clinton doldrums, could turn around in time for midterms If economic sentiment catches up to improving indexes by next spring, that will put Republicans in a strong position to keep majorities in both the House and the Senate. By: Recent polling from Napolitan News Service reveals less-than-thrilling economic sentiment heading into the holidays. The study, published on Wednesday, reports that only 26% of voters say their finances are improving with another 36% saying their finances are getting worse. The ratio was similar two weeks ago when 25% said their finances were getting better, while 39% said it was getting worse. Napolitan reports that this is the most pessimistic voters have been since before the 2024 election, when 25% said their finances were getting better and 41% said worse. Six month window Founder of Napolitan, Scott Rasmussen, told Just the News, “The single most important political indicator for any election is how people feel about their personal finances. If people are this pessimistic on Election Day next year, the Democrats will win the House handily and have a serious chance of winning the Senate.” “So what happens to the economy in the six months will define the midterm elections.” In the lead-up to the 1992 presidential election, the U.S. economy was emerging from a mild recession that began in July 1990 and officially ended in March 1991, with real GDP growth resuming at a sluggish pace of about 2.7% for the year. Despite this technical recovery, unemployment climbed to 7.5% by mid-1992, the highest in eight years, fueling perceptions of a “jobless recovery” where productivity gains outpaced job creation. This disconnect between macroeconomic indicators and voters’ pocketbook realities contributed significantly to President George H.W. Bush’s defeat, as challenger Bill Clinton capitalized on widespread frustration with stagnant wages and rising poverty rates near 15%. As of December 2025, the U.S. economy mirrors aspects of that 1992 lag, with real GDP surging 3.8% annualized in Q2 and an estimated 3.9% in Q3, yet consumer sentiment remains subdued below the neutral 50 mark on the Economic Optimism Index at 47.9. Unemployment has ticked up to 4.4% in September, the highest since late 2021, while headline CPI inflation holds at 3.0% year-over-year, squeezing household budgets amid a 43-day government shutdown’s lingering effects. Feeling the pinch Personal consumption expenditures grew robustly at 2.8% annualized in early Q3, but high-income households are driving the gains, leaving many middle- and lower-income voters feeling the pinch from tariff-induced price hikes in groceries and apparel without corresponding wage relief. If economic improvements accelerate into early 2026 as forecast  — with GDP growth projected at 1.9% for the year and unemployment stabilizing around 4.5% — voters could start feeling tangible benefits like moderated inflation to 3.2% and steadier job gains just as midterm campaigns intensify. This timely “kitchen table” boost might bolster congressional incumbents’ prospects, akin to how delayed recovery perceptions doomed Bush in 1992, potentially shifting voter turnout and priorities toward optimism over frustration. However, persistent uncertainties from policy volatility and uneven spending could still amplify turnout among discontented demographics, making the midterms a referendum on whether indexes finally translate to wallets. 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Articles / Government / White House Total national security shutdown: Immigration cessation has long-standing historical precedent In the wake of Wednesday’s shooting of two National Guard members, Trump is pushing to tighten vetting and border controls as a direct countermeasure against possible national security threats posed by migrants inadequately screened under the Biden-era protocols. By: President Donald Trump announced Thursday he intends to “permanently pause” immigration from all Third World countries and reexamine green-card holders who are not a “net asset” to the country. Trump posted on social media: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.” The term “Third World,” in the modern sense, is a reference to poorer nations (“developing”) with a Low Human Development Index (HDI). The term originated during the Cold War to describe nations not aligned with either the US (First World) or the Soviet Union (Second World). Today, it has evolved to refer to developing countries, often with economic instability, high poverty, and lower standards of living. Political correctness has guided many to prefer terms like “developing countries” or “low and lower-middle-income countries.” Long history of immigration shutdowns The total or near-total shutdown of immigration has been enforced many times throughout U.S. history during several crises, most recently in 2020 when Trump’s Proclamations 10014 and 10052, combined with a global shutdown of U.S. embassy visa services due to COVID-19, effectively stopped almost all immigrant and most temporary-worker visa entries for months. National security has been the basis of such shutdowns as long ago as in the early part of the last century. During the Great Depression and World War II, from roughly 1930 to 1945, strict application of the “likely to become a public charge” clause and wartime security rules drove legal immigration to near-zero levels without a single blanket ban. Similar de facto pauses occurred in 1918–1920 amid the Spanish flu and postwar chaos, and again in the months following the September 11, 2001, attacks when consular processing was largely suspended for security reviews. While landmark laws such as the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the 1924 Immigration Act sharply curtailed inflows through numerical limits, the only modern instance of a formal, broad suspension explicitly pausing virtually all legal immigration channels remains the 2020 COVID-19 measures. As early as 1919, the Department of Justice deported more than 500 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman. Nearly 10,000 people in 70 cities were arrested on the basis of the spread of radicalism and immigration from Europe in what is called by historians “The Palmer Raids,” named after then-Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Since the start of Trump’s involvement in politics in 2015, he has made illegal immigration a hallmark issue of his campaign. During his second term, deportations have been a divisive issue, separating liberals who oppose the raids and deportations and those who support the moves to decrease the illegal immigrant population. Nobody is certain about the illegal immigrant population In Charlotte and surrounding communities, ICE enforcement operations in recent weeks have left some day-labor pickup sites, apartment complex parking lots and certain shopping centers noticeably deserted during hours that were previously crowded with workers. Community members and business owners in similar affected cities, including Atlanta, Nashville and parts of suburban Chicago report the same pattern, leading many to question if the official estimates of the illegal immigrant population living in the U.S. are underestimated. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through its Office of Homeland Security Statistics, provides the most authoritative estimates of the illegal immigrant population. The figures are derived using the “residual method,” which subtracts the estimated number of legal immigrants from the total foreign-born non-citizen population in Census Bureau surveys like the American Community Survey (ACS), while adjusting for undercounts, deaths and emigration. Between 11 and 20 million DHS’s latest publicly available comprehensive estimate, released in April 2024, places the illegal immigrant population at 11 million as of January 1, 2022. Critics of the official estimates, including former Border Patrol chiefs, analysts at the Center for Immigration Studies and FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), argue that the true unauthorized immigrant population is likely between 15 and 20 million or higher, contending that DHS and Pew figures substantially undercount recent border crossers, visa overstays, and those evading census surveys entirely. Trump concluded his Thanksgiving night social media post with a warning that said, “HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!” TOP STORIES Total national security shutdown: Immigration cessation has long-standing historical precedent ‘First Lady of Technology’ Melania Trump pioneers FLOTUS book with global enthusiasm White House’s full-bore approach spreads to state redistricting efforts Americans still have Bidenflation blues, despite economic improvements going into the holidays Alarming number of Americans, Democrats expect a politically violent future LATEST EPISODES US Chamber Expert details why Black Friday broke records & why the ‘We Ain’t Buying It’ boycott fizzled FLOTUS Melania Trump’s Advisor & Ad Agency CEO Marc Beckman talks AI & fostering America’s future Peace Through Strength: Victoria Coates breaks down Trump’s foreign policy legacy & what’s upcoming with Ukraine Inside Big Tech’s Power Play: Daniel Cochrane Exposes Meta’s Antitrust Battles & the Future of Digital Freedom A Healthcare Revolution: Rep. 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Articles / Government / White House ‘First Lady of Technology’ Melania Trump pioneers FLOTUS book with global enthusiasm Considered “Not good enough” for the coastal elites who select covers for Vanity Fair or Vogue, Melania’s work resonates with hundreds of thousands who recognize the First Lady’s insight and charm. By: First Lady Melania Trump’s memoir, “Melania”, which debuted at number one on the New York Times’ Bestseller List, will soon add new languages to the groundbreaking audiobook, voiced entirely by artificial intelligence (AI). Marc Beckman, who serves as senior advisor to the First Lady, offered insight into Trump’s work on the original, physical book: “I can tell you from firsthand experience, every single part of each of those books, every word, every image, the paper stock, all of that was led by our nation’s First Lady.” The new version of the audiobook, which will be released on Cyber Monday, will be Trump’s AI-generated voice in Spanish. In the following weeks, subsequent versions in Portuguese and Hindi will follow, opening up more consumer opportunities across the world. Beckman gave insight into the Hindi version and said, “When we launched the physical book, we had this overwhelming response from India. The First Lady visited India during the first and during the first administration and she’s got a huge fan base in India. So we were getting an overwhelming amount of requests.” Direct approval and insight In May, the audiobook dropped in a way no major memoir ever had before: the entire narration—seven hours and one minute long—was performed by an artificial-intelligence replica of multilingual Melania Trump’s own voice. Released exclusively on the ElevenReader app (iOS, Android, and web) and priced at $25 for the English edition, it was created by ElevenLabs using a voice model built with Melania’s direct approval and oversight. The First Lady, who is the first major political figure to use blockchain technology and even created her own meme coin named “Melania“, has embraced technology, but also painstakingly values authenticity. Beckman told Just the News, “If she went into the studio and just read her book, it would have been one-fifth of the amount of time that it took us to build out this book with artificial intelligence. The synthetic voice of the First Lady is uncanny. It’s perfect. She worked on every single word.” “They’ll hear on the audiobook that every space, every breath, every pronunciation of every single word she perfected through the use of artificial intelligence. Months and months and months of work. It was incredible.” Best-Seller despite snubs from fashion elites The indisputably glamorous Ms. Trump appeared only once on the cover of Vogue Magazine, prior to her husband’s election to the White House. She has never appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, whose staff purportedly threatened to quit if she was so honored. By contrast, Michelle Obama appeared on the cover of Vogue three times as First Lady, and Laura Bush was on the cover of The Ladies’ Home Journal and People among other titles. The self-titled memoir came out in October 2024 through Skyhorse Publishing and prior to its release, pre-orders reached the top of a number of Amazon‘s best-selling books lists. Landing on shelves only a month before the 2024 presidential election, the large-format hardcover mixes personal storytelling with dozens of never-before-seen family photographs and quiet reflections on her years in the public eye. The book traces her early life in Slovenia during the final decades of communist Yugoslavia, her fashion-modeling years across Europe and eventually Manhattan, and the chance encounter with Donald Trump in 1998 that she calls the pivotal moment of her life. She wrote openly about raising their son Barron, pushes back against what she describes as hurtful speculation about him, and offers small, rarely shared glimpses of life inside the White House. She announced the project herself on X with a sleek, futuristic video and the line, “I am proud to present Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated completely by artificial intelligence in my voice. A new chapter in publishing has begun.” TOP STORIES ‘First Lady of Technology’ Melania Trump pioneers FLOTUS book with global enthusiasm White House’s full-bore approach spreads to state redistricting efforts Americans still have Bidenflation blues, despite economic improvements going into the holidays Alarming number of Americans, Democrats expect a politically violent future White House trying to sort out what Biden and Blinken ignored in Nigerian war on Christians LATEST EPISODES US Chamber Expert details why Black Friday broke records & why the ‘We Ain’t Buying It’ boycott fizzled FLOTUS Melania Trump’s Advisor & Ad Agency CEO Marc Beckman talks AI & fostering America’s future Peace Through Strength: Victoria Coates breaks down Trump’s foreign policy legacy & what’s upcoming with Ukraine Inside Big Tech’s Power Play: Daniel Cochrane Exposes Meta’s Antitrust Battles & the Future of Digital Freedom A Healthcare Revolution: Rep. Burlison’s MAHA plan blows past Obamacare, puts patients back in charge RELATED ARTICLES ‘First Lady of Technology’ Melania Trump pioneers FLOTUS book with global enthusiasm White House’s full-bore approach spreads to state redistricting efforts Americans still have Bidenflation blues, despite economic improvements going into the holidays Alarming number of Americans, Democrats expect a politically violent future White House trying to sort out what Biden and Blinken ignored in Nigerian war on Christians In off-year elections, Republicans ignored major Trump wins that could’ve changed the night EPA chief says ‘the sky is the limit’ with Trump’s diplomatic deals on strategic minerals SNAP program rife with fraud, disparity and health issues for participants, government agencies say ‘No Kings’ protesters silent when Democrats rule as monarch Democrats panic over redistricting numbers with pivotal SCOTUS decision looming