00:00Democratic leader. Thank you. Mr. President, what is a very bad leader? What does a bad leader do when they get bad news? Shoot the messenger. That's just what happened with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today we got some of the worst labor numbers that we've gotten in a long time.
00:21The economy added only a paltry 73,000 jobs last month, but that wasn't the worst of it. We learned the economy actually added less than 20,000 jobs each in May and June, following two months of Donald Trump's Liberation Day. That's 250,000 fewer jobs more than we thought. So, of course, that's very bad news for the economy. But what does Donald Trump do?
00:48Instead of trying to fix the economy, he shoots the messenger. The woman he fired, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, passed this Senate 88 to 8. Vice President Vance voted for her. And now, fire her.
01:04Well, Donald Trump, firing her isn't going to relieve the chaos that you've created with your ramshackle tariff regime. Shooting the messenger isn't going to make the jobs that we're losing in health care and clean energy because of your so-called big, beautiful bill come back.
01:25None of this will change. None of this will change. The American people will still suffer in exactly the same way that they did an hour ago before you fired the head of the BLS.
01:38You know, Donald Trump sometimes admires dictators. He admires them. Well, he sometimes acts just like them. It's classic Donald Trump. When he gets the news he doesn't like, he shoots the messenger.
01:56Now, there's a word for this when the Soviet Union does it, when the dictators of the Russians did it. They called it Prypysky. It meant fire the messenger. Don't change your policies.
02:10As long as Donald Trump keeps firing messengers who bring him truth. He hates truth when he doesn't agree with it. As long as he does that, this economy will not improve. Inflation and cost to the American people will not go away. New jobs will not return to this country.
02:29He ought to start governing like a leader, not like someone who imitates authoritarian leaders. I yield the floor.
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