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Democrats seize on Trump earnings to go after GOP on affordability
Key takeaways
- Financial disclosures released Tuesday show the president made more than $2 billion in 2025, including $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency related income.
- There’s no question about it,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, told The Hill.
- “What you want more than anything else is to have the leader of the party feeling the people’s pain, identifying with the key issues that are troubling them,” he continued. “And there’s no way to make that happen now.”
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Financial disclosures released Tuesday show the president made more than $2 billion in 2025, including $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency related income.
It’s giving new ammunition to Democrats who want to contrast Trump’s economic experience over the last 18 months with many voters, complicating the GOP’s effort to drive home its own economic message ahead of the midterm elections.
“It makes it harder. There’s no question about it,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, told The Hill.
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