Hoyer on Tomorrow's Jobs Report: Will Republicans Claim Credit If There's Job Growth?

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement regarding March's employment numbers that will be reported by the Department of Labor tomorrow:
"Tomorrow, the report on March's job creation numbers will be released. We don't yet know what the report will tell us--but we do know that if the report is positive, Republicans will claim credit for it. But those claims will have little basis in reality. In fact, Republicans have done nothing to spark job creation: after 13 weeks in the House majority, they have yet to even consider a single job-creating bill. Instead, House Republicans have passed a spending bill full of reckless cuts to investments in our growth--a bill that nonpartisan observers agree will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Republicans have been working to destroy jobs, not create them; any Republican attempts to ignore that record and claim credit for job growth should be met with deep skepticism."



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