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.
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 EppsAnne 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 the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
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