{"id":1053137,"date":"2025-06-06T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053137"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:01:34","slug":"icymi-amid-latest-job-numbers-dnc-peoples-cabinet-members-slam-donald-trump-and-gops-billionaire-first-agenda-for-leaving-working-families-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-amid-latest-job-numbers-dnc-peoples-cabinet-members-slam-donald-trump-and-gops-billionaire-first-agenda-for-leaving-working-families-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Amid Latest Job Numbers, DNC People\u2019s Cabinet Members Slam Donald Trump and GOP\u2019s Billionaire-First Agenda for Leaving Working Families Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the DNC hosted a press call with <strong>DNC Chair Ken Martin<\/strong>, <strong>Former National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling<\/strong>, and the newest member of the DNC\u2019s People\u2019s Cabinet, <strong>Former U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai,<\/strong> to discuss Trump and Republicans\u2019 disastrous economic agenda \u2014 and how it is killing American jobs while raising costs and cutting essential programs for working families.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Trump promised to lower costs and usher in a \u201cgolden age,\u201d every decision he has made on the economy has steered us toward a cliff \u2014 and there are warning signs everywhere. Monthly job creation is down more than 60% compared to the Biden administration. This is the fourth straight month of weakened job growth under Trump. And a recent survey found that around only 1 in 4 business executives hold a favorable view of the year-ahead economy. U.S. employers have announced more layoffs during the <em>first five months of this year<\/em> than any year since 2020, when the pandemic drove mass layoffs \u2014 all because of the swirling uncertainty of Trump\u2019s economic agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/04\/fed-beige-book-economic-report-cites-declining-growth-rising-prices-and-slow-hiring.html\">prices are rising<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/quickbooks.intuit.com\/r\/small-business-data\/index\/june-2025\/\">small businesses are cutting jobs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/23\/house-republican-big-beautiful-tax-bill-favors-the-rich.html\">the rich keep getting richer <\/a>\u2014 and Americans no longer <a href=\"https:\/\/navigatorresearch.org\/americans-continue-to-disapprove-of-trumps-handling-of-the-economy\/?emci=60d9ec03-f43f-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&amp;emdi=21692f74-5f40-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&amp;ceid=1591425\">trust<\/a> him on the economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Find highlights from the call below: <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXe37AOBZDD9nJiarNzlP6WqlK24E93qIs7uGKCyTx4Jit4BxIxuX7rvZGRC45LHYKob1W-b6G2Bsu7-bhoppetUGIQwxrTf0UtetqHzln-_CPJ5lspXOeob-gfKTFih38vdoeI?key=hwmgttgvR5XsK9Kp-kIQmg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s jobs report is just one piece of a larger problem that Donald Trump, and Trump alone, has created \u2014 and he has no plans to fix it,\u201d <strong>said DNC Chair Ken Martin<\/strong>. \u201cIn fact, he\u2019s about to make things much worse for everyone but himself and his billionaire friends. His erratic trade policies have sent the markets in a tailspin, they\u2019ve raised prices, they\u2019ve brought down consumer confidence, and of course they\u2019ve slowed economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeWQ3O-W24IzE1RoOD4ujeSMS36zd6mSnDiVp8vNu6AQBtRxmjcr0Z8gmqPDge91RsEgfqlFmxuL04d9OJh9FI7hBNS6g9AEp6kLTuKY2-lbpnMD5VLGfbqgQpuKR7wHwhB2hkl?key=hwmgttgvR5XsK9Kp-kIQmg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing, overall, a loss of confidence in the performance of the American economy,\u201d <strong>said Katherine Tai, former U.S. Trade Representative and member of the DNC\u2019s People\u2019s Cabinet.<\/strong> \u201cAnd I\u2019ll just put this point quite simply: whether you are a small business, whether you\u2019re a member of a working family, and whether you are just an individual, like all of us on this phone call, it is becoming more and more challenging to make basic plans about your life, about when you can take a vacation, about where you might be able to send your kids to school, about whether or not you will have a job in three to six months, and what your family income is going to look like. And, that is a result of shocks and policies that are coming from our own government and our own administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXera0QCUquOrwjLrVHGf_KXTcBw82q6AUOPuPH9Nzu1twlhNbp-I8IIw4_W2gRr8CyM1CG2s1zocXFLb3F0R9K-qyqYsRyeYKo7pW6I3e7IDbm9sOCieRxWvw8k8LZ5MUHgWX2H?key=hwmgttgvR5XsK9Kp-kIQmg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe blame lies totally in the reckless, erratic policies of the President, which are having an extraordinary impact in creating uncertainty and lack of confidence from the largest businesses thinking about new production, to small businesses who have no cushion and are are fearful that they will go out of business, to ordinary citizens,\u201d <strong>said Gene Sperling, Former Director of National Economic Council.<\/strong> \u201cAnd now, on top of that, the President says we\u2019ll have a tax policy that will give more to the top 0.1%.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the DNC hosted a press call with DNC Chair Ken Martin, Former National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, and the newest member of the DNC\u2019s People\u2019s Cabinet, Former U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, to discuss Trump and Republicans\u2019 disastrous economic agenda \u2014 and how it is killing American jobs while raising costs and cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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