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Garrett Epps and Anne Kim
Massive tariffs. Mass deportations. A looming budget crisis. Economist Rob Shapiro speaks with co-hosts Anne Kim and Garrett Epps about what’s ahead for the Trump economy.
Garrett Epps is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly. Garrett is on Bluesky @garrettepps.bsky.social. More by Garrett Epps
Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and... More by Anne Kim
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