Sunday, September 26, 2021

Steve Scalise should check the facts before he boasts about Trump's job record.

"Oh, but, we shut down the country."

That is exactly correct.

And, why was the country shut down? Because Trump took all the scientists in China that monitored such events as a virus outbreak off the budget and brought the scientists home. The job losses are a direct result of that Trump policy.

A DIRECT RESULT OF A PRESIDENT PLACING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HARMS WAY.


January 8, 2021

By Andrew Van Dam

President Trump (click here) took office at the crest of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. He leaves presiding over the worst labor market in modern U.S. history, as an already-sputtering economic recovery has turned negative.

Friday’s awful jobs report from the Labor Department showed there were still 3 million fewer jobs in the United States than there were on Inauguration Day 2017, when Trump stood in front of the Capitol and vowed to reverse the American carnage.

No other modern president has left the U.S. with a smaller workforce than it had when they took office. Since the government started keeping track in 1939, no other president has even seen significant job losses during a single presidential term — though job growth during George W. Bush’s first four years in office was essentially flat....