Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump heads to Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania today for an event about the economy. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, the focus comes as Trump faces polls showing voters blame him for high prices.
Trump has spent very little time during his second term traveling around the country to sell voters on his policies. Now with his approval ratings at a low point and administration officials asking voters for patience, Trump heads to a resort in his swing district in Pennsylvania to talk about the economy.
He's called affordability a Democratic con job and a hoax, but yesterday at the White House dialed it back a little.
We brought prices way down from what it was. We inherited high prices.
The most recent numbers show the inflation rate in September was the same as it was during former President Biden's last month in office. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
Trump has also given a wide-ranging interview to Politico. It's out this morning. Trump says he gives the U.S. economy a grade of A+++++. He says he inherited his economic woes.
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Chapter 2: What economic challenges is President Trump addressing in Pennsylvania?
The president says American farmers will get a bailout of $12 billion to help them cope with the effects of his global tariffs. That includes retaliation from other countries. U.S. farmers have lost sales. The Gulf State's newsroom's Drew Hawkins has been speaking to farmers in Louisiana. He says farmer James Davis has been struggling.
Davis said that the Trump administration's tariff relief plan is really crucial.
It is hard to make crop loans work on paper, so it's imperative and very imperative that The Trump administration get these payments out as soon as possible.
And Davis says that without what the president did, which he described as a bailout, many farmers are going to go belly up, is how he put it. They won't be able to continue farming, and that includes himself.
Drew Hawkins reporting. State senators in Indiana have advanced a measure to the Senate that would redraw the state's congressional districts. It aims to send more Indiana Republicans to Congress. From member station WFYI, Ben Thorpe tells us President Trump has demanded the redistricting.
Trump has pressured Indiana lawmakers to support a new map for months, even threatening primary challenges against state senators who don't. Speakers at the committee hearing hope to sway state Senate Republicans who have been divided on whether they support the move. Lawmakers have faced anonymous threats in recent weeks, including bomb threats, although the motives are still unknown.
Republican State Senator Greg Walker, who is opposed to redistricting, urged his colleagues not to support the bill.
That's a shall and that's in our rules. And I refuse to be intimidated. I made a choice.
The bill passed out of committee on a 6-3 vote. A final vote is expected on Thursday. For NPR News, I'm Ben Thorpe in Indianapolis.
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