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Hi, this is Brian in Madison, Wisconsin. I'm sitting in the hospital room with my 44-hour

old son while his mom gets some well-earned rest in between overnight feedings.

This podcast was recorded at 108 p.m. on January 13th, 2026.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but my wife and I will be tired.

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We got a real backseat baby.

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I was going to say I remember it like it was yesterday, but actually I don't. Like, I have totally blocked that period out completely. Oh, I love we have a time stamp for that, like that little coup in the background. I know, that was awesome. How perfect was that? Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. I'm Deepa Shiverham. I cover the White House.

And NPR's chief economics correspondent, Scott Horsley is also with us. Hi, Scott.

Good to be with y'all. Great to have you. And the little one.

Yes, exactly. So today, we are digging into affordability, which is something that we know is something that voters care a lot about. And we're also going to be talking about Trump's ongoing feud with Fed Chair Jerome Powell. But I do want to start with today's

news. President Trump is slated to give a speech in Detroit that's focused on his economic message.

What more can you tell us, DEPA? Yeah, I mean, look, this is the first time the president has kind of

done an event or traveled to a place and made his remarks specifically about the economy in a minute.

And just to like scale back to like a month ago about, you know, it was mid-December.

A lot of polling had just come out saying that Trump's approval on the economy was like the lowest it had ever been.

The NPR PBS News Maris poll said it was about 36% of approval on the economy, which is, I think, the lowest that that poll has ever showed. Which is also notable because I feel like the economy is one of those things that even at times when people were mad about Trump, about everything else, the economy has always been something that voters generally trusted in him on. Oh, 100%. Because of his business acumen. Yeah. It's always been one of his strongest issues.

So when a number dips like that, it is definitely really significant, especially because, you know,

the economy and affordability and high prices and combating inflation, those were all things that he

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