As winter turns to spring in 2026, American politics is experiencing a bit of economic-messaging déjà vu from the Trump administration.
Much like last year at this time, the president has leapt headlong into a major new undertaking that threatens to rock an already-wobbly economy. And much like last year, the administration is asking Americans to accept some “short-term pain” for promised long-term gain.
In 2025, it was tariffs. In 2026, it’s the war with Iran.
Won’t that get worse when they have to pay back the tariff money? I assume they don’t just have the money laying around and they are just going to borrow more to pay those.
I imagine it’ll get a lot worse. You gotta include legal fees from all the companies that will be suing for the refund.