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‘Disgusting’: Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Brags About Killing 300,000 ‘High-Paying’ American Jobs

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  1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

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    >“Everybody is hurt by what he’s celebrating,” one public employee union official told Common Dreams. “I guess it’s just par for the course from this administration, but it’s still a disgusting thing to hear.”

    >President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 “high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll during the president’s first year back in office.

    >Asked by anchor Maria Bartiromo about the administration’s efforts to cut government spending, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said it had made “a huge amount of progress.”

    >“I think the biggest thing that we can point to is that we’ve cut government employment by 300,000 [workers](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/workers),” he said. “Those are jobs that are very high-paying that are gone forever.”

  3. vaskov17 on

    These people are now competing for jobs in a private market that is not creating them. When we get to a point where the government tracks and reports data correctly again, we’ll find out the damage DOGE/Vought did with these firings is 10x worse than what we think now

  10. RociBuldidi on

    You cans smell the stupid radiating from that piggy face through the picture.

    Really, Trump surrounds himself with the absolutely dumbest people

  11. Silent-Resort-3076 on

    From 2020:

    >White House economics adviser Kevin Hassett went viral over the weekend for **referring to American workers as “human capital stock”** — a racially charged, dehumanizing turn of phrase that conjured up images of livestock.

    >“Our human capital stock is ready to get back to work,” Hassett told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, as part of his argument that the US economy is poised for a quick turnaround, even as he acknowledged that the unemployment rate will linger in double figures through November’s election.

  13. tarantulawarfare on

    They brag about job losses like it’s saved money, while we are barely scraping by and starving.

    And they are also entirely responsible for the brain drain this country will suffer the consequences of for a long time. Our medical professionals, scientists and educators have left in droves because of the oppression and idiocy of this “Christian” Nationalist regime.

  14. joeschmoe1371 on

    Sometime this week the guy from CNBC was running his mouth like this with Pete Buttigiege about the same crap.

    You cannot change an individual’s world views through discourse/education. These people cannnot be reasoned with – we should stop asking them questions and letting them lie with impunity.

  15. Ncav2 on

    That’s also 300000 people we all have to compete with for jobs now if you’re wondering why you aren’t hearing back from employers.

  16. barneyrubbble on

    These people are literally insane. They see numbers, not people. And then they lie, lie, lie about the numbers.
    They keep touting savings and improvements, and yet everything continues to be more expensive, government spending continues to rise anyway, and the public gets fewer and fewer benefits. Funny how they never mention that government employees provide a return; they are not just an expense. Stable, well paid employees provide the service they’re paid for, as well as paying taxes and contributing to the economy. Billionaires and Patriot missiles certainly contribute less. Bean counters are bad enough. Politically motivated bean counters can fuck right off.

  18. vertigostereo on

    I can’t tell the difference, so those 300,000 taxpayer-funded jobs must not have been that important.

  22. LightBeerOnIce on

    Someone needs to wipe that smirk off his face. He is never questioned by anyone other than fox entertainment. Stupid asshole.

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