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The U.S. economy grew 2.2% in 2025, a modest slowdown from 2.4% the previous year. GDP gains were fueled by solid consumer ...

President Donald Trump made a passionate defense of the US economy during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

The report also underscores an odd aspect of the U.S. economy: It is growing steadily, but without creating many jobs. Growth was a fairly healthy 2.2% in 2025, yet a government report last week ...

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The US economy grew at a much slower pace in the final months of 2025 as the historic government shutdown weighed on economic activity, ending a year that saw the weakest growth since the pandemic.

President Donald Trump has spoken before Congress plenty of times.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, hit by the effects of the ...

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The U.S. economy grew far slower than expected in the final three months of 2025, according to data released Friday by the ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...