U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer was on capitol hill to testify on the Trump Administration trade policy. The use of tariffs, trade with china and implementation of the u. S. Canada trade agreement. Mr. Lighthizer was asked about the Global Supply chain of the inquisition of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Hearing is just under three hours. Im pleased to welcome ambassador lighthizer. Thank you for joining us. We need to have you here because we face great challenges whether its the murder of floyd or whether its the economic downturn we had because of the pandemic or the pandemic itself. We have a lot facing our country. Its not going to be easy to bring us back on the course of iran and their brave but good trade policy will be one important part of doing so so im glad we have that discussion today. Trade policy is immediately significant because we need to make sure we dont have any unnecessary taxes on goods g2 the recovery or i
Number overall, 130,000 jobs added, that was 20,000 or 30,000 less than expected, at least, given who you were listening to. Private secretator read added 90 job. Participation rate up. 3 , thats the high since 2013 hours worked rose. 1 . That was somewhat expected it is at 34. 4. So overall your reaction overall remains market wary, if you want a job, you can get a job. Thats an amazing economy. 3. 7 we got to get used to that what im shocked at is that i hear people talking about what the tariffs would do, even previous show. Look, when smoot holly came in, we did real big tariffs before president roosevelt, really tanked the economy, or was participant in tanking the economy, bank failures, this is not bad given the fact that the president drew a line in the sand versus the chinese. I wouldnt expect it to be this strong you can say, listen, mining lost jobs well, no kidding the country has gone away from mining but what i dont like to see frankly is a big spike in healthcare that ha