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Trump is racing to build a giant arch in D.C., potentially without the necessary authorization from Congress. (Jonathan Edwards\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Americans\u2019 confidence in the economy is at a nearly four-year low<\/a>, a new poll finds. Here\u2019s what else happened<\/a> under President Donald Trump and his administration this week.<\/p>

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In Washington, Republican lawmakers are starting to resist some of Trump\u2019s most controversial policies, like his new $1.8 billion payout fund<\/a>. But Trump is commanding near-ultimate loyalty among Republican primary voters across the country.<\/p>\n

Last month, voters ousted several Indiana state lawmakers<\/a> who resisted Trump\u2019s push to gerrymander congressional seats in that state. Last week, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) lost his primary<\/a> five years after having voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. And this week, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) lost his primary<\/a> after voting against Trump\u2019s signature legislation and leading the effort to force the Justice Department<\/a> to release the files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is @realdonaldtrump\u2019s Republican Party,\u201d Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida) wrote on social media after Massie\u2019s loss. \u201cThe rest of us get the privilege of living in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Trump also took a big electoral risk this week by endorsing a controversial candidate<\/a> in a bitter and competitive Republican Senate primary in Texas. He endorsed Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn, ahead of a runoff next week. Paxton has been a loyal Trump supporter but the prevailing political wisdom is that if Paxton is the Republican nominee, Democrats have a real shot at winning a Senate seat in Texas this November \u2014 which would go a long way to helping them take back the Senate.<\/p>\n

Over opposition from courts, architects, preservationists and some military veterans<\/a>, Trump is moving at warp speed to build some of the largest monuments and structures in all of Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing I do best in life is build,\u201d Trump told reporters this week. \u201cI\u2019m a great builder, and I build beautiful product.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to build a massive White House ballroom<\/a> despite a legal battle about whether he can do it without approval from Congress.<\/p>\n

And this week, an arts commission stocked with Trump loyalists approved a towering arch<\/a> near a famous entrance to the National Mall. The arch would be almost as tall as the U.S. Capitol and one of the largest in the world \u2014 Trump wants it to be 250 feet tall for the nation\u2019s 250th birthday. A group of veterans have sued<\/a>, concerned it could block view of the nearby Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>

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Trump says he also doesn\u2019t need congressional approval to build the arch, but federal law says otherwise because the location Trump wants to build it on is considered protected land, The Washington Post\u2019s Dan Diamond<\/a> reports. \u201cWe don\u2019t need anything from Congress,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

So this week, the Trump administration pointed to Congress approving an arch-like structure more than a century ago<\/a> on the same site as the authorization they need, Dan reports.<\/p>\n

Since he got back in office, Trump and his administration have systematically rolled back environmental regulations and efforts to limit greenhouse gases that warm the planet.<\/p>\n

This week was a big one for those efforts. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed repealing limits<\/a> on several toxic \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in many Americans\u2019 drinking water, drawing criticism from the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with Trump. (The EPA says it may reintroduce the regulations.)<\/p>\n

And Trump announced he is rolling back regulations on refrigerants <\/a>used in grocery stores and many air conditioning units. The refrigerants are known as climate super polluters because they trap heat at a rate hundreds or thousands of times as high as carbon dioxide does, my Washington Post colleagues report.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed this could lower food prices amid rising inflation but industry experts told my Post colleagues that costs could actually rise because the industry had already been moving away from using these potent chemicals. The Biden administration pushed to phase out the pollutants.<\/p>\n

Climate change experts say that the Trump administration will slow America\u2019s transition to renewable energy but not be able to stop it entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will just make it all more expensive,\u201d Leah Stokes, a political scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara and co-host of the climate podcast \u201cA Matter of Degrees,\u201d told me last year. At the time, Trump and Republicans were ending popular tax credits for solar and electric vehicles, despite the jobs they produced in rural communities<\/a> and the potential to ease Americans\u2019 reliance on oil, which can be roiled by geopolitics \u2014 like Trump\u2019s war in Iran.<\/p>

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