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Donald Trump stated on August 26, 2025 in a Cabinet meeting “The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.” Donald Trump stated on August 5, 2025 in an interview on CNBC Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers “were rigged” when the agency revised them “down by almost 900,000 jobs” after the 2024 election. Rick Scott stated on March 9, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" “The number of full-time jobs (was) dropping almost the entire Biden administration.” X posts stated on March 7, 2025 in on social media During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, “31% of U.S. job growth” came from public-sector jobs. Kathy Hochul stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor. Social Media stated on December 6, 2024 in social media posts UnitedHealthcare posted a job opening for a CEO 24 hours after its CEO was killed. Bernie Sanders stated on November 10, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" Inflation-adjusted weekly wages “are lower today than they were 50 years ago.” Threads posts stated on October 21, 2024 in a Threads post The Biden-Harris administration “brought over” 10 million migrants who got 9 million jobs. Mike Rogers stated on October 14, 2024 in a debate “About 400,000 manufacturing jobs in the state of Michigan will go away with EV mandates.” Kamala Harris stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" "We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people." Kamala Harris stated on September 25, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC “Even before the pandemic, (Donald Trump) lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.” Julie Su stated on August 15, 2024 in News conference “400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.” Donald Trump stated on August 21, 2024 in a Truth Social post “The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.” Pete Buttigieg stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.” Donald Trump stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.” Nancy Pelosi stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on March 31, 2024 in a post on X "The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs." Joe Biden stated on April 8, 2024 in a speech Speaking of semiconductor industry jobs, "Know what the average salary is? $110,000. You don't need a college degree." Scott Walker stated on March 3, 2024 in TV interview “We just had 100% increase in layoffs.” JD Vance stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.” Load more
Donald Trump stated on August 26, 2025 in a Cabinet meeting “The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.”
Donald Trump stated on August 5, 2025 in an interview on CNBC Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers “were rigged” when the agency revised them “down by almost 900,000 jobs” after the 2024 election.
Rick Scott stated on March 9, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" “The number of full-time jobs (was) dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”
X posts stated on March 7, 2025 in on social media During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, “31% of U.S. job growth” came from public-sector jobs.
Kathy Hochul stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor.
Social Media stated on December 6, 2024 in social media posts UnitedHealthcare posted a job opening for a CEO 24 hours after its CEO was killed.
Bernie Sanders stated on November 10, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" Inflation-adjusted weekly wages “are lower today than they were 50 years ago.”
Threads posts stated on October 21, 2024 in a Threads post The Biden-Harris administration “brought over” 10 million migrants who got 9 million jobs.
Mike Rogers stated on October 14, 2024 in a debate “About 400,000 manufacturing jobs in the state of Michigan will go away with EV mandates.”
Kamala Harris stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" "We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people."
Kamala Harris stated on September 25, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC “Even before the pandemic, (Donald Trump) lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.”
Julie Su stated on August 15, 2024 in News conference “400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.”
Donald Trump stated on August 21, 2024 in a Truth Social post “The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.”
Pete Buttigieg stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
Donald Trump stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”
Nancy Pelosi stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on March 31, 2024 in a post on X "The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."
Joe Biden stated on April 8, 2024 in a speech Speaking of semiconductor industry jobs, "Know what the average salary is? $110,000. You don't need a college degree."
JD Vance stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”
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