Rachel Maddow
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Trump has brought job growth in this country down to a 16-year low.
Trump has dragged factory activity and manufacturing levels back to the Stone Age.
At the micro level of individual American families' finances, Trump's policies, not random external factors, but Trump's specific and deliberate policies have created deliberate man-made financial harm.
on health insurance costs, which he apparently accidentally exploded, on electricity costs, which he apparently accidentally exploded.
And now, for millions of Americans, he's going to be garnishing their wages for their student loans, too.
Again, none of these are externalities.
None of these are economic factors that are imposing on his presidency.
These are all policies that Trump chose to choose, all of which are deliberately hurting American families economically, while he has
broken the job market and absolutely failed in any rational attempt to tackle inflation.
And now he's threatening to jail the Fed chief, which should devalue the dollar and inch us that much closer to needing a wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread.
Who's on his side at this point?
Who's he winning over?
They said it couldn't be done, but Congress is waking up.
Yes, this Congress.
And I can hear you scoffing at me through the television.
I can't.
Look up what I said about the science funding.
I know you don't believe me.
Just look it up.
The Congress, in its way, is waking up.