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Miles Archer

(23,594 posts)
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 04:36 PM Saturday

Kevin Hassett swoons over more than 300,000 "high-paying" jobs that are "gone forever." [View all]

Seriously...HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL INCENTIVE do Americans need to VOTE in NOVEMBER?

Asked by anchor Maria Bartiromo about the administration’s efforts to cut government spending, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said it had made “a huge amount of progress.”

“I think the biggest thing that we can point to is that we’ve cut government employment by 300,000 workers,” he said. “Those are jobs that are very high-paying that are gone forever.”

+He claimed the cuts reduced government spending by “an unthinkable amount of money,” perhaps $1 trillion over the next ten years.

He also said that the administration “reduced the deficit last year by $600 billion” through a combination of higher-than-expected economic growth, tariff revenues, and “supply side effects” of Trump’s massive tax cut, which mostly benefited the wealthiest Americans while gutting the social safety net.

https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-hassett-2676702419/
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