Political Quotes

“I come to the floor to talk about our economy and link that to the budget that the President has introduced for our Nation going forward. On Friday, the Department of Labor published its monthly jobs report. Just like the April jobs report, the May report is a cause for concern. There really wasn't any cause for celebration. Yet President Biden did exactly the same thing that he did in the previous month after that disappointing jobs report--he declared victory. He gave a speech in Delaware, and he called it ``historic progress.'' Even the President of the United States is stretching the language of our Nation right here. Let's look at the facts. What is Joe Biden calling ``historic progress''? Over the last 2 months, about 850,000 fewer people were hired than the economists had predicted. In the month of May alone, 160,000 people left the labor force. The percentage of Americans in the labor force actually went down. Another month, another weak jobs report. It is disappointing but not surprising. We know why it has slowed down. President Biden and the Democrats have committed to paying millions of people more to stay home from work than to go to work. If you pay people more to not work than to work, that is what you are going to get. That is what they are being encouraged to do.…”