{"id":66832,"date":"2026-02-20T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-economic-growth-slowed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2025-amid-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:59:04","slug":"us-economic-growth-slowed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2025-amid-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-economic-growth-slowed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2025-amid-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US economic growth slowed in fourth quarter of 2025 amid government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GDP grew 1.4% last quarter, down from economists\u2019 forecast of 3%, though AI and tax cuts could boost growth this year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/20\/retail-sales-and-public-finances-data-to-show-state-of-british-economy-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US economic growth slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter amid disruptions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-federal-government-shutdown-2025\">last year\u2019s government shutdown<\/a> and a moderation in consumer spending, but tax cuts and investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> were expected to support activity this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gross domestic product (GDP) increased at a 1.4% annualized rate last quarter, the commerce department\u2019s Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its advance estimate of fourth-quarter GDP on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast GDP rising at a 3.0% pace. The survey was, however, completed before data on Thursday showing the trade deficit widening to a five-month high in December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/20\/economic-growth-fourth-quarter-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GDP grew 1.4% last quarter, down from economists\u2019 forecast of 3%, though AI and tax cuts could boost growth this year Business live \u2013 latest updates US economic growth slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter amid disruptions from last year\u2019s government shutdown and a moderation in consumer spending, but tax cuts and investment &#8230; <a title=\"US economic growth slowed in fourth quarter of 2025 amid government shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-economic-growth-slowed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2025-amid-government-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US economic growth slowed in fourth quarter of 2025 amid government shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}