June Jobs Report Destroys GOP Talking Points
Credit: ThinkWhy
July 2, 2021

The US economy added 850,000 new jobs in June, beating Wall Street's predictions and crushing Republican talking points.

"From a market perspective, this was an all-out positive jobs report,” said Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors, in a CNBC report. “The improvement today likely reflects a slight easing of the labor supply constraints that have been holding back the jobs market in recent months, as well as continued momentum from the economic reopening."

As Duncan wryly states, "+850K jobs means job killing inflation!"

Still, there's never a bad time for Republicans to claim tax cuts are the answer to all our problems.

Senator Chuck Grassley's latest tweet became an instant laughingstock.

My pal Thom Hartmann shot back:

Others piled on:

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