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Goodbye May, hello June

The stock market (S&P 500 index) ended the day’s trading with a 7 percent gain for the month of May. The market is also up for the year to date.

Likewise, with Pres. Trump’s approval rating. According to Rasmussen, the final report for May has Trump’s approval rating at 53 percent, five points higher than the final report for April. In the end, he did spend every day in May at or above level.

In more good news to end the day/week/month on, The Hill newspaper reports,

Department of Energy cancels nearly $4B in energy awards.

Wait! It gets better!

It also notes that of the 24 awards it canceled, 16 of them were issued between Election Day and Trump’s inauguration.

Add this $4 billion to an even bigger slug of money rushed out the door, with little to no vetting, in the final days of the Biden Administration. Meanwhile, in the “private” clean-energy sector, the AP reports,

More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday.

So much winning.

 

 

 

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