Chart 1: Trump likes to claim that he "built the greatest economy in history" in his first 3 years, but the truth is, job creation *slowed* in those years compared to what Trump inherited from Obama-Biden.
Chart 2: Real wage growth also *slowed* in Trump's first 3 years compared to what he inherited from Obama-Biden.
Chart 3: Trump and the Republicans pretend that the recent GDP report is great news, but they ignore the fact that the Trump Economy is still far behind what he inherited from Obama-Biden.
Chart 4: @JoeBiden ran the 2009 Recovery Act program, which ended the Great Recession and launched the longest streak of job growth on record.
Chart 5: Unfortunately, after the comeback under Obama-Biden, small business job growth slowed in Trump's 2nd year in office; small businesses *lost* jobs in Trump's 3rd year; and small businesses have been devastated by Trump's incompetent response to COVID in his 4th year.
Chart 6: Six months after Trump promised a "rocket ship" recovery, pushing states to reopen without masks and without adequate testing and tracing, the Trump Economy is still in the tank.
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Chart 1: Trump claims he "built the greatest economy in history" in his first 3 years, but the truth is, job creation *slowed* in those years compared to what Trump inherited from Obama-Biden.
Chart 2: Real wage growth also *slowed* in Trump's first 3 years compared to what he inherited from Obama-Biden.
Chart 3: Trump and the Republicans claim that the recent GDP report is great news, but they ignore the fact that the Trump Economy is still far behind what he inherited from Obama-Biden.
2/ Next, because Republicans often like to claim that they are the party of the private-sector, here's the pace of private-sector job creation before and after Trump took office. data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES…
3/ To inflate its jobs numbers, the Trump White House often cites data "since the election" rather than "since the inauguration."
But even giving Trump credit for 39 months instead of 37 doesn't help him when comparing it to the previous 39 months:
Worth Repeating: With Trump approval at new low, this is not the moment to give up. It's the moment to press as hard as possible to ensure that the #TrumpCon-#GOPTaxScam (tax breaks for the rich at the expense of the middle class & working poor) doesn't get to final passage. 1/3
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2/3 If ever there was a bill that should be easy for 99% of the nation to unite against, it's this attempted "heist" by "the country’s elite at the expense of everybody else, including future generations who will end up bearing the cost." nytimes.com/2017/12/02/opi… …
3/3 And Democrats must relentlessly remind the nation of exactly what happened to workers the last time Republicans pushed their false promise that tax cuts for rich would "trickle down" from "job creators" (see red bar below):