Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Alyssa Slotkin held a town hall in a Republican district trying to focus on pocketbook issues, healthcare, and the cost of living. >> For Donald Trump, whose central thesis, his central theme when he ran in November was he was going to lower your costs in every single category. He is not lowering your costs, he is raising your costs.I think we should note while prices for some goods are up, inflation overall is about the same as as it was when President Biden left office. ABC N ...

We were promised inflation, but instead we got a booming economy. ...

>> ALL RIGHT. THAT WAS NBC'S GARRETT HAKE WITH THAT REPORT. AND ALSO, THE PRESIDENT JOINED CNBC JUST MOMENTS AGO AND CONTINUED TO SAY THAT THE JOBS NUMBERS WERE RIGGED AND THAT HE WILL BE HIRING AN EXCELLENT REPLACEMENT THAT FROM THE PRESIDENT JUST MOMENTS AGO.JOINING US NOW, FORMER LABOR SECRETARY UNDER PRESIDENT CLINTON, ROBERT REICH. SHE'S OUT TODAY WITH A NEW BOOK ENTITLED COMING UP SHORT, A MEMOIR OF MY AMERICA. AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.BUT FIRST OF ALL, YOUR REACTION TO WHAT THE PRESIDEN ...

And you can see right now the ten year at 422, the two year at 370. >> And now to the gusts that we've been talking about all morning President Donald Trump. Mr.. President welcome. Thanks for thanks for calling in. Wish you could be here in person, but we'll do this.>> Good morning Joe. >> We've been talking about the BLS and the employment numbers all morning long. Sometimes I know you get a chance to tune in. I want to bring up a chart.I hope you can see it, or else I'll describe it to you. This is the r ...

is is that the Trump administration is making the same mistake that the Biden administration made which was to basically you know remember we had Biden is working well now we have the golden age of American prosperity's return and Americans are not feeling that better to say we're we're working hard to put America on the right road rather than declaring premature victory and I think that's a big mistake for the White House and is likely to come back and and bite him in the midterm election >> that's uh Repu ...

Welcome back to Squawkbox. We are in Aspen, Colorado this morning with two former Treasury Secretaries uh who are uh the co-chairs of the Aspen Economic Group. Good morning to you.Hank Pollson is here. Tim Gner is here. Uh we just spoke to the president.Lots of questions about where our economy is today, what's going on with the tariffs, how you think about all this geopolitically, treasuries and everything. Um geopolitics, China. So I want to get to as much of this as we can.I just want to start though wit ...

We are live this morning uh in Aspen at the Aspen Economic Strategy Group and joining us right now is the group's director, Melissa Carney. She has been the director for seven years. Thank you for waking up early this morning. Uh no bears just yet. We were looking for bears cuz it's a little dark here. Uh she's also a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. Um here's where we're going to start the conversation because this is an evidence-based group. There's a lot of economists here, former ...

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These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. >> This is the action of a petulant child.Like you give me bad news, I fire the messenger. When he's trying to weaponize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that tells you a lot about their uh insecurity about the economy. The commissioner doesn't see the numbers for until Wednesday before they're published. By the time the co ...

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