Jim McGovern (clip)

Mr. Speaker, I just had the general lady that that's a lot of words to justify the biggest tax increase on the American people, on average of $2,300 a year more because of these tariffs.

But I would just say to the general lady as well that if you think that these policies are great, if you want these tariffs to continue, then you shouldn't be afraid to vote for them.

Have a debate on the floor and let people vote up or down on them.

I don't understand why that is such a controversial thing to want to advocate for, especially in the House of Representatives where we're supposed to be able to debate important issues.

And that's all people, you know, if you have the votes, if everybody thinks it's a great policy, then they all vote yes, and they continue.

But I'm glad the General Lady brought up the economy, because I want to speak about the economy just for a couple of minutes here.

Mr. Speaker, the consequences of Trump's economic policy are being felt in communities across the country.

Prices on fruits and vegetables, meat and poultry, and dairy are all up.

And they're likely to climb even higher as Trump's tariffs ripple through the supply chain.

President Trump and Republicans promised to reduce grocery prices.

Instead, grocery prices spiked at the fastest pace in three years, last month.

They promised to cut electricity prices in half.

Instead, August electricity prices were over 6% higher than they were a year ago.

They promised to reduce inflation.

Instead, we saw the largest monthly increase in inflation since January.

They promised to create jobs.

And instead, for the first time in nearly four years, the economy lost jobs in June.

We lost jobs in June.

And job growth has been stagnant for months.

Mr. Speaker, the Trump economy is not working for the American people.

But do you know who it is working for, Mr. Speaker?

The millionaires and the billionaires who contributed to his campaign.