Haven t come back and a lot of those are his people. where we see the political flip side. remember, started to get the first year of the obama administration, horrible. inherited a recession. losing jobs. then in the second term, though, things start to recover, when you would have jobs comparable to even strongser than now, 250, 270, republicans would always find a cloud. a piece of coal in that. now the democrats find 220,000 is a robust report. economy is creating jobs. everybody s happy. nancy pelosi, more than six months into the congress republicans have no infrastructure bill, no budget, no tax reform and no jobs agenda of any kind. to your point, democrats trying to create the political environment, republican was good at. when this president sells you, yea, look at your paycheck, around your neighborhood. around your community. look at that factory still with the padlock on it. they learned from what the republicans did and then washington, everybody flips
And so the white house is wishing it would go away. it clearly is not going away and so they are trying to compartmentalize this as much as they can. part of the jobs agenda is to try to emphasize the kinds of things whether it is in building trade or where people don t necessarily have to have a college degree or can be trained for the kind of jobs that would be a part of the new age of technology with programs that would support that. so that s what we ll see the president do this week. that s a method of saying, no problem here. we re ving forward. there are a lot of pitfalls for
Commitment. the united states has been an indispensable leader on many fronts, including the climate front, including the energy innovation front. in fact, on the latter i want to keep going back to that, because the innovation agenda really is the jobs agenda. we play a leadership role in having over 20 countries commit to doubling down on innovation investments. the budget proposal of this administration, rather than doubling it, it proposes halving it. well, that just dulles our competitive edge. i m sorry to cut you off, i just wanted to ask you one quick question. the white house and cabinet officials have been facing a lot of questions about this, and by my count, at least five white house officials and cabinet secretaries after this announcement have refused to say whether the president believes global warming is a hoax still. no matter where he lands on this, do you think the president needs to make his view known? well, let me say, first of all, i do want to emphasize th
Repealing and replacing the job-killing obamacare with a system that encourages competition and drives prices down and a systematic regulatory reform to reduce unnecessary burdens on manufacturing and other key industries aiming for the roll backs since the reagan years. the president will focus more on jobs this month and holding events in washington and outside pushing his pro growth, pro jobs agenda. later this afternoon, the president will sign two bills that both were passed with bipartisan support that help protect those who protect us, our nations veterans and public safety officers. first, the public safety officer s benefit act which was co-sponsored by chuck grassley of iowa and senator gillibrand of new york will reduce the unacceptable backlog of families awaiting approval of survivor benefits that were killed in the line of duty.
High. everybody expected a bump, and then bam. here we go with jeff sessions, and it s now a lull. john? well, this is the jobs president, and his speech and the week is about jobs, jobs, jobs. this is like the 1917 american workers revolution in reverse. he has a speech. he lays out his jobs agenda. he starts by saying, look, i m going to do an increase in defense spending of 10%, $54 billion. i m going to make america great again by rebuilding the military with american workers. then he goes to the newport news shipyard in virginia. i was there. there were 2,500 workers. they re going to get better hours. they re going to get better jobs. he s for that. then he lays out an immigration reform plan and says for legal immigration, i m going to look