Good morning.
It's Thursday, May 1st.
I'm Yasmeen Khan in for Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, Kamala Harris delivered her first big speech since the election,
how Donald Trump's spending bill is testing Republican unity,
and the Supreme Court seems poised to upend the separation of church and state.
But first,
U.S. economic growth dropped dramatically for the first time in three years amid President Trump's aggressive global tariff strategy.
The GDP declined by 0.3 percent this past quarter,
and if it were to decline again the next quarter, we will officially be in a recession.
Consumer confidence has also plummeted to its lowest level since the recession of 1990.
It dropped 32 percent since January.
And hiring in April slowed to its lowest pace in nine months.
Despite the bleak numbers, Trump defended his tariff policy at a rally in Michigan on Tuesday,
where he marked his first 100 days in office.
You're going to be very proud of this country very soon.
And with my China tariffs, we're ending the greatest job theft in the history of the world.
China's taken more jobs from us than any country has ever taken.
Trump has repeatedly said that the goal of his tariffs is to move manufacturing back to the United States.