{"id":1052408,"date":"2025-04-04T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052408"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:35:31","slug":"the-peoples-cabinet-former-labor-secretaries-slam-trumps-failing-economic-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-peoples-cabinet-former-labor-secretaries-slam-trumps-failing-economic-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The People\u2019s Cabinet: Former Labor Secretaries Slam Trump\u2019s Failing Economic Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the DNC hosted a press call with <strong>DNC Chair Ken Martin, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, <\/strong>and<strong> former Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su<\/strong> to call out Donald Trump\u2019s reckless economic agenda. With Trump putting the economy on recession watch, it\u2019s clear that Trump and his billionaire Cabinet \u2013 including his shadow president Elon Musk \u2013 will do nothing but hurt working families and tank economic growth with their reckless agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This press call was part of the DNC\u2019s recently-launched \u201cPeople\u2019s Cabinet\u201d initiative, which features issue experts speaking to the American people about what\u2019s really happening across the country as Trump fills his administration with unqualified billionaires, Fox News hosts, and mega-donors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Find highlights from the press call below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA majority of Americans did not sign up for what they\u2019re getting from Donald Trump. They didn\u2019t sign up for an economic meltdown. They didn\u2019t sign up to \u2026 have their health care, nursing homes, public schools and Social Security targeted,\u201d <strong>said<\/strong> <strong>DNC Chair Ken Martin.<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019s why the DNC today is launching the People\u2019s Cabinet, which is made up of experts, leaders, and everyday Americans from across the country who will cut through the noise and equip communities with the reliable, accurate information that they need and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeq65nMkKbe_JSa38nKP-IenXnyG9mmhINa8O0GrQkE72x-ILbqKD5hLdt_FjGwh3twy0eOHqiH-zRudT8X5sV1ythHlMKqAPwzKw9d-dn8f8bxi2XVQt70N0C3-yp0KKwNtQnl?key=jSwH1VbYr0wZVF-ibyI8Tc1N\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:465px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are in a crisis right now because of Donald Trump and his administration. They have created an economic crisis,\u201d <strong>said <\/strong><strong>former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. <\/strong>\u201cNot only do we have an employment report that shows that manufacturing jobs are almost stagnant in terms of where they\u2019ve been and the Labor Department actually adjusted downward its figures for the last couple of months. \u2026 I\u2019ve almost never seen something like this happen.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeOlMh9Z5Ty1zi-yAWNTNFpj-UgZUfSE0GhloOuyg1_JYGsqGfzhqyB6ccZszqtR5KpRWtzEWH8gcouekYA5Jx7t7cCYrHGyKl4tj0HuzU9qMH6tfLkm_8jd3tNxEqJXZpUxFzZ?key=jSwH1VbYr0wZVF-ibyI8Tc1N\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:456px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump does not have a good track record on [manufacturing]. When he left office, manufacturing jobs were down 200,000 just within his first term \u2026 bringing back industry requires not just one blunt instrument, not just throwing out words like tariffs and doing them in a completely unstrategic fashion,\u201d <strong>said former acting Labor Secretary Julie Su. <\/strong>\u201cAnd so just watching an administration that has no real interest in governing, no real interest in making sound policy decisions, but rather just, you know, throwing out terms and words and hoping that people aren\u2019t paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the DNC hosted a press call with DNC Chair Ken Martin, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and former Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su to call out Donald Trump\u2019s reckless economic agenda. 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