In the wake of an abysmally bad jobs report, Team Harris has taken to blaming former President Donald Trump, who has been out of office for nearly a full term now, for the bad jobs report. Her attempt to deflect blame from the Biden-Harris Administration comes as many on the right blame Biden and Harris for the current state of the economy.
As background, the report found that unemployment rate has ticked up notably, finding, “The unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 4.3 percent in July, and the number of unemployed people increased by 352,000 to 7.2 million.” It added, “These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the jobless rate was 3.5 percent, and the number of unemployed people was 5.9 million.”
Team Harris, in any case, blamed former President Trump for that malaise in the jobs market, with Harris for President spokesperson James Singer releasing a statement in which he said, on behalf of Harris, “Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession.”
Continuing, Singer and Team Harris claimed that Project 2025 would somehow make the economy worse for the middle class and tax them more, saying, “Now, he’s promising even more damage with a Project 2025 agenda that will decimate the middle class and increase taxes on working families.”
Trump, as a reminder, decreased the tax burden significantly with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Regardless. Singer’s statement continued, claiming that Project 2025 would do so “while ripping away health care, raising prescription drug costs, and cutting Social Security and Medicare — all while making his billionaire donors richer.”
Singer then alleged, in a statement that will be equally surprising to many conservatives who see the Biden-Harris Administration as having failed on the economy, that “significant progress” has been made. He claimed, “We’ve made significant progress, but Vice President Harris knows there’s more work to do to lower costs for families.”
Singer then claimed that a Harris Administration would focus on restoring the middle class, saying that it “will make building up the middle class the defining goal of her presidency, taking on greedy corporations that are price gouging consumers, banning hidden fees, and capping unfair rent increases and drug costs.”
Team Trump fired back at those wild assertions. Karoline Leavitt, the National Press Secretary for the Trump Campaign, released a statement in which she hammered the Biden-Harris “Bidenomics,” saying, “Kamala Harris has proudly and repeatedly celebrated her role as Joe Biden’s co-pilot on ‘Bidenomics.’”
Leavitt continued, “She cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate for spending that put inflation on steroids, and despite the evidence that America’s working families are hurting she tells us these failed plans are working.” She then, on much the same note about the general economic malaise created, in her view, by the Biden-Harris Administration: “The basic necessities of food, gas and housing are less affordable, unemployment is rising, and Kamala doesn’t seem to care.”
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