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January 31, 2018
President Trump claim: “We have ended the war on American Energy -- and we have ended the war on clean coal…In Detroit, I halted Government mandates that crippled America's autoworkers -- so we can get the Motor City revving its engines once again. Many car companies are now building and expanding plants in the United States -- something we have not seen for decades… Soon, plants will be opening up all over the country. This is all news Americans are unaccustomed to hearing -- for many years, companies and jobs were only leaving us. But now they are coming back.” [State of the Union, 1/30/18]
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January 31, 2018
President Trump’s Claim: “I have directed my Administration to make fixing the injustice of high drug prices one of our top priorities. Prices will come down.” [State of the Union, 1/30/18]
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January 31, 2018
President Trump Claim: “Our massive tax cuts provide tremendous relief for the middle class and small businesses… Since we passed tax cuts, roughly 3 million workers have already gotten tax cut bonuses – many of them thousands of dollars per worker.” [State of the Union, 1/30/18]
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January 31, 2018
President Trump Claim: “All Americans deserve accountability and respect -- and that is what we are giving them. So tonight, I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet Secretary with the authority to reward good workers -- and to remove Federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.” [State of the Union, 1/30/18]
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January 31, 2018
President Trump Claim: “Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs, including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone. After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages. Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low…African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded, and Hispanic American unemployment has also reached the lowest levels in history.” [State of the Union, 1/30/18]
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January 30, 2018
Last month, Pfizer – a big drug company pocketing a big tax cut from the GOP tax scam – laid off 300 workers.
Today, Pfizer announced just how massive the tax cut is: an $11 billion gain from the GOP tax scam.
So … what happened to the ‘higher growth, higher wages, and more JOBS?’
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January 30, 2018
Tonight, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time with Chris Cuomo where she spoke out against House Republicans’ dangerous irresponsibility in releasing a bogus, misleading memo authored by Chairman of the Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes.
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January 29, 2018
Tonight, the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will vote to release Chairmen Devin Nunes’ bogus memo, creating grave implications for our national security. Just last week, that the Justice Department concluded that its release would be ‘extraordinarily reckless’ and cause irreparable ‘harm to national security and to ongoing investigations.’
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January 29, 2018
Yesterday, Speaker Ryan thanked Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch for being ‘such a critical part of our historic success in 2017,’ highlighting their support for the GOP tax scam (and of him).
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January 20, 2018
When President Trump tweeted last May that our country needed a ‘good shutdown,’ OMB Director Mick Mulvaney wholeheartedly agreed.