MNI POLITICAL RISK-Trump To Deliver Primetime Address @ 2100ET
Dec-17 13:11By: Tom Lake
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- President Donald Trump confirmed via a Truth Social post that he will deliver an address to the nation this evening at 21:00 ET 02:00 GMT. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fleshed out what the president is likely to talk about in the address, saying to reporters that “He’s going to talk a lot about the accomplishments over the past 11 months...”, as well as his plans to “continue delivering for the American people over the next three years.”
- The ratcheting-up of tensions with Venezuela continued on 16 December, when Trump formally designated the country’s government as a ‘foreign terrorist organisation’ and ordered all US-sanctioned oil tankers servicing Venezuela to be blockaded.
- The president is set to interview Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Christopher Waller later today for the position of Fed chair. This comes after Trump has already interviewed former Fed governor Kevin Warsh, who is viewed as one of the two front-runners alongside Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett.
- Poll of the Day: A Marist poll for NPR/PBS News shows that prices and inflation remain by a significant margin the single most important economic issue concerning Americans at present.
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