It's Friday, November 21st, 2025. The good, the not so good, and the ugly of economic messaging.

Also, more dispatches from the really weird world of Corey Mills and ask or tell me anything that's

coming up next on the AM Update. Thanks again for listening this week on the AM Update.

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back just a little bit from the AM update, more details on that as we get closer. So just as we head

into the Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays, wanted to give you an early heads up on that. Let's get to a

Friday five-pack, shall we? Let's get to the good, the okay, and the ugly of

economic messaging coming out of the White House this week. Why am I focusing so much on economic

messaging? Because that's really the only thing that they have, and that's the only issue out in the

real, not online, chronically online world. That's the only issue I believe that matters right now.

And I believe the White House, as I articulated earlier this week, on a number of issues,

but particularly economic messaging, they are fumbling big time on some fronts.

Let's go to Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary.

Here she is at the White House yesterday.

President Trump's entire economic agenda is aimed at putting more money back into the pockets

of hardworking Americans.

That's why he signed the largest middle tax cuts in history into law, from no tax on overtime,

no tax on tips to no tax on social security.

And according to a new study from Piper Sandler, which is out this week, tax filers can expect an

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