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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 01:40 PM Wednesday

Bad jobs report raises new alarms among Republicans over Trump's tariff policies

Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm and uncertainty over the strength of the U.S. economy after the Labor Department reported Tuesday that the nation had created nearly 1 million fewer jobs from March 2024 to March 2025.

While the data mostly falls during former President Biden’s administration, the report offers further evidence the labor market is struggling. The monthly jobs report on Friday showed the unemployment rate, though still low, ticked up to 4.3 percent as the economy added only 22,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Many Republicans view President Trump’s global trade war as the biggest reason for weaker-than-expected jobs data, noting that tariffs have increased prices, stifled consumer demand and spooked employers and investors.

While the major stock market indices have reached record highs, Republicans on Capitol Hill worry that doesn’t reflect the economic reality experienced by many Americans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bad-jobs-report-raises-alarms-100000757.html

Per the last paragraph, you think so?

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Bad jobs report raises new alarms among Republicans over Trump's tariff policies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP
per the last paragraph... FirstLight Wednesday #1
Big Business DELIGHTS in fewer workers. "I'll replace them with AI" usonian Wednesday #2

usonian

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2. Big Business DELIGHTS in fewer workers. "I'll replace them with AI"
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 02:44 PM
Wednesday

Now, whether or not you agree that AI voted massively in the last election, it's still laid-off workers that vote, and this was as predictable as rain in Honolulu.

They knew it.
They passed the "Make America a Banana Republic" bill.
They can shove it right up their
their
their
their
boarded-up local offices.

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