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Democrats bash Trump, GOP over disappointing jobs report: ‘Awful’ 

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01.08.2025

Democrats on Capitol Hill are hammering President Trump and his GOP allies for Friday’s underwhelming jobs report.

Released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the analysis revealed that U.S. employers added 73,000 jobs in July — well below economists’ estimates of 100,000 — while the figures for May and June were revised dramatically downward to indicate that the economy created 258,000 fewer jobs over those months than initially reported.

The Democrats say the disappointing numbers are no accident, but reflect a Republican policy agenda — including Trump’s efforts to gut the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — that has prioritized the financial well-being of the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

“This is really bad,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), a member of the Financial Services Committee, wrote on X. “The job slow down obviously, but the size of the revisions is........

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