Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was mocked and ridiculed over her response to Wednesday’s grim jobs report.
Raimondo was interviewed by ABC News from the Democratic National Convention when she was asked about revisions that showed the number of U.S. jobs had been overstated by nearly 1 million over the past year. She instead accused former President Donald Trump of being a liar.
“We are in the best hands.”
“I don’t believe Mr. Trump because I’ve never heard him tell the truth,” Raimondo responded.
“It’s from the Labor Department,” the reporter replied.
“I don’t know much about that,” Raimondo said.
Democrats are trying to argue that the economy is stronger under President Joe Biden than under President Trump, but a revision to the jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics removed 818,000 jobs from the official figure.
Critics slammed Raimondo, the former Rhode Island governor, for her bizarre response to the question.
“This is completely unbelievable… and Secretary Raimondo knows nothing about this?!? How do they expect to be trusted?” Responded Republican Congressman Bill Huizinga of Michigan.
“There’s only so much you can fake or hide before things come crashing down: Biden’s decline, the mis-accounting of the economy, the redefinition of ‘recession’.” Reply Commentator Katie Pavlich.
“US Secretary of Commerce not aware of Department of Labor’s major jobs report” read Another tweet.
“We are in the best hands.” I told a joke Commentator Mary Katharine Hamm.
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In response to the revised employment figures, President Trump accused the Biden-Harris administration of deliberately falsifying the numbers to make the economy look stronger than it actually is.
“The actual numbers are far worse than that, and if Comrade Kamala is president for another four years, millions more jobs will disappear overnight and inflation will completely devastate the country,” he wrote.
Before Biden dropped out of his reelection campaign, polls showed Americans were far more likely to trust Republicans than Democrats when it comes to the economy.
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