It's Wednesday, March 25th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that just wants President Donald Trump to tell us whatever he told Secretary
of War slash little boy Pete Hegseth.
Here's Hegseth on Tuesday.
This is not Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is not a president who's interested in vague end states.
He's been very clear with us about what we need to accomplish.
If he's been very clear with you about the war in Iran, could he be clear with us?
Maybe.
On today's show, new polling shows Trump's approval rating is on the decline.
Shocking.
And the Wall Street Journal's March Madness bracket is AI-mazing.
But let's start with taxes, one of the two certainties in life.
A new report published by Fortune magazine on Tuesday found that Americans pay more than $140 billion in out-of-pocket expenses
and spend more than 11 billion hours just to fill out their individual tax returns.
And that's before they actually, you know, pay their taxes.
In 2022, for example, Americans paid more than $2 trillion in individual income taxes.
That's a ton of money.
And at a time when, according to The Guardian,
nearly half of Americans think their financial security is getting worse, not better.