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Ted Lieu: “Under the economic policies of Donald Trump and Republicans, America is now in decline. For the first time in 3 years…”

On the recordJune 26, 2025
Under the economic policies of Donald Trump and Republicans, America is now in decline. For the first time in 3 years, we have negative GDP growth. That means our economy actually shrank this year. It takes a special kind of stupid to take 12 consecutive quarters of positive economic growth and make it go negative. We also know inflation has increased, and Trump Republicans want to make it worse. They want to pass the big, ugly bill that is going to cut off healthcare for over 16 million Americans, all in service of massive tax breaks to billionaires. Tell them to take their heads out of the sand and stop harming the American people. Trump and Republicans should be working for the American people, not for billionaires.
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Ted Lieu
Democratic · California

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Criticizing the economic policies of Donald Trump and Republicans during a floor speech.

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