The DC area lost 56,000 jobs in 2025, the worst of any major Metro area. But is it as bad as it sounds? Tracy Haddon Low of the Brookings Institution studies the regional economy as Donald Trump transforms the federal government and she’s here to walk us through our state of municipal health. 

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