If Donald Trump can deliver that, then I will salute his presidency. But he's not doing anything, anything at all, that suggests that that is going to be the direction he works in and moves in.
Reich hopes for economic improvement under Trump but doubts his commitment to working-class interests.
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We’re not going to tolerate taking money from Medicaid, and food stamps, and nutrition, and possibly from Medicare as well, to give a big tax cut to the richest people in America when they’ve never been as rich.
He is going to increase prices. I mean, tariffs are essentially — as we now are learning, as most people know — taxes.