To mention the president s budget, which technically was is going onth and now to be dribbled out over the next six weeks weve learned. That because of just the way he wants to conduct or because of issues such as with ties to russia, the things that popped up, have that affected put bility of agenda to be out there . Guest there have been a lot of distractions, some of them selfcreated n. Cabinet on, the officers have been slow to take their places because of a slowdown in senate. There havent been any nominations for the individuals cabinet below the officers, who usually do a lot of heavy lift og organization policy. Lso, because the republicans were not ready when this president was sworn in to move major pieces of legislation. Example, the Affordable Care act, they promised to repeal for seven years, but it became clear long wayly they were a away from agreeing among themselves on draft legislation, which was just released last night. Ost so, i was going to say in the light of tha
First off at the top, i want to acknowledge that theres been an additional wave of threats to Jewish Committee centers and Antidefamation League offices. According to some reports there have been over 100 bomb threats phoned into jewish institutions since the start of this year alone. As the president said at the beginning of his joint address, quote, were a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its forms. We denounce these latest antisemitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms. It is incredibly saddening i have to continue to share these disturbing reports with you and i share the president s thoughts that he hopes we dont continue to have to share these reports with you. As long as they will as long as they do continue we will continue to condemn them and look at ways which we can stop them. Now onto news of the day, you saw President Trump yesterday continue to deliver on two of his most significant Campaign Promises protecting the country against r
Context, where, for example, when we seized 800 million in Swiss Bank Accounts that belonged to the corrupt uzbeki official in the silicon case, there was one claimant to that money, the government of uzbekistan. So we see that. Thats obviously something that the people who were involved in the wrongdoing were associated with the government of uzbekistan. So we wouldnt necessarily be willing to agree to give the money back to them, because they might put it back in a different pocket. So in the hypocrisy context, thats a typical thing where whatever government, whatever the constitution was, that government will claim an interest in the funds. So we do deal with that. We generally fight that. We recognize the entire government is not corrupt and that the government itself was a victim, in some way, of the corruption of this official but we try to work to get the money, to the extent we are giving money back to the country, we work to get the money back in a different way so we can be s
The millions cast ballots in the midterm elections. When they came out they told opinion researchers they were voting on the sluggish economy. But within months in january 2013 more jobs were created during the Obama Administration than in eight years under president george w. Bush. While big important things are true. Millions work at lower wages than before the recession, longterm unemployment is frighteningly high. And young minority workers are still in a bad way, still there are 6 million more jobs than when president obama took obvious, and the president is punished for the state of the economy. October is the ninth month in a row to add 200,000 jobs to the u. S. Economy, the longest period of sustained growth at that pace since 1995. 214,000 jobs were created in october. Unemployment also dropped to 5. 9 the lowest level sinc since 2008. Most positions were added in the retail, healthcare and food industries. Over all its been a good year for the american workforce. More than 2.
The millions cast ballots in the midterm elections. When they came out they told opinion researchers they were voting on the sluggish economy. But within months in january 2013 more jobs were created during the Obama Administration than in eight years under president george w. Bush. While big important things are true. Millions work at lower wages than before the recession, longterm unemployment is frighteningly high. And young minority workers are still in a bad way, still there are 6 million more jobs than when president obama took obvious, and the president is punished for the state of the economy. October is the ninth month in a row to add 200,000 jobs to the u. S. Economy, the longest period of sustained growth at that pace since 1995. 214,000 jobs were created in october. Unemployment also dropped to 5. 9 the lowest level sinc since 2008. Most positions were added in the retail, healthcare and food industries. Over all its been a good year for the american workforce. More than 2.