(9 Sep 2025)
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Washington, DC – 9 September 2025
1. Wide of Sen. Schumer, other Democrats walking to microphone
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
"This morning, we learned that Trump’s economy is even in worse shape than we knew. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency Trump is literally working to bend to his will, reported that the economy added 900,000, almost a million fewer jobs than everyone originally thought. This report shows one thing. Donald Trump has tanked the job market. After promising to lower prices, to curb inflation on day one, his tariffs are raising prices and slowing the economy. His big ugly bill is kicking 16 million people off health care. Unemployment is going up. Health insurance costs are facing some of the largest increases in years."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
"I think people are economic voters, always. But I think by the time the midterm elections roll around, a lot of the effects of the one big, beautiful bill that we passed, you’re going to start seeing that, you’ll see increased capital investment, you will see new jobs created, better paying jobs, and I think you’ll be seeing growth in the economy. So yeah, I think these things, this is a moment in time, but we’re looking at this in the context of what we passed in July and the effect it’s going to have not only in this next year, but in years to come, because of the certainty we created by making most of those tax policies permanent."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader
"For weeks now, Leader Jeffries and I have been asking Leader Thune and Speaker Johnson to meet with us to start negotiating, keep the government funded. We’ve heard nothing, crickets. As Senator Murray can tell you, the only way to avoid a shutdown is to work in a bipartisan way. And that’s what we are trying to do. But Republicans are once again threatening to go at it alone, which will lead our country straight into a shutdown, a Republican-caused shutdown, because they refuse to work together."
++BLACK FRAMES++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader
"I’ve maintained all along, as you all know this, that the best way to fund the government is through regular order, and that’s through passing appropriations bills. That’s not something the Democrats did when they had the majority. But it’s something that we intend to do. But we’re going to – it’s going to need a little bit more time, obviously, because we don’t – with the window closing now between now and September 30th, we will need a short-term continuing resolution. And how long that goes for, what anomalies it might carry are all things that can be negotiated but the answer, the direct answer to your question is we haven’t received an offer yet from the Democrats related to that."
6. Thune walks away ++CONTINUOUS SHOT++
STORYLINE:
Top Senate Democrats and Republicans parried over the Labor Department’s revisions to U.S. jobs data Tuesday, as well as funding the federal government with a partial shutdown looming at the end of the month.
The Labor Department reported that U.S. job market was much weaker in 2024 and early this year. Employers added 911,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the year that ended in March 2025.
"This report shows one thing," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "Donald Trump has tanked the job market. After promising to lower prices, to curb inflation on day one, his tariffs are raising prices and slowing the economy," Schumer said.
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