Caroline Leavitt (White House press secretary / clips)

The president is unhinged.

He is unwell.

Oh, my God, please.

That performance in front of the generals, that is so dangerous.

You know I serve on foreign affairs and appropriations.

It's a collision of those two things.

Our allies are looking elsewhere.

Our enemies are laughing.

You have a president who is unwell.

The president is unhinged.

He is unwell.

Oh, my God, please.

That performance in front of the generals that I didn't see is so dangerous, by the way.

review what we got because as rick said very disappointing it was a weak number so this is private sector jobs total comes in negative 32 000 and that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51 000 it's the biggest monthly drop since march 2023 also the revision was not good august was revised down sharply the month now showing as you can see um or actually can't see but

August goes down to negative 3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000.

There's the August revision.

So two-week months in a row.

If you look, private sector payrolls have now dropped in three of the last four months, according to ADP.

And if you look beneath the surface, you can see where the job losses were.

Small and medium-sized businesses saw bigger declines than large businesses, which actually saw job growth.

But guys, if you take the report and you compare it, you know, some people say, oh, it's not really correlated with the government jobs report.

Well, the reason I think that people are paying attention to it today is, first of all, we're not going to likely get that government jobs report on Friday.

But also look at the correlation.

I mean, the direction is in the it's in the right mode.

I think it's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate for Jared Kushner, who is widely respected around the world.

He is not widely respected around the world, by the way, and has great trust in relationships with these critical partners in these countries to strike a 20 point comprehensive detailed peace plan that no other administration would ever be able to achieve.

And so Jared is donating his energy and his time.

to our government, to the President of the United States, to secure world peace.

And that is a very noble thing.

And this is a peace plan that has not just been accepted by Israel, but it has been applauded by Muslim and Arab countries around the world.

It has been applauded by European leaders around the world.

Virtually everyone in the world is supportive of this plan.

that Jared Kushner offered his time to help put together, alongside our Special Envoy Witkoff, the Vice President, the President of the United States, Secretary Rubio, and the President's entire national security team.

We are very proud of that plan, and we hope Hamas will accept it because it will lead to a more peaceful and prosperous Middle East.

I think the president saw the video and posted it and then took it down and he has the right to do that.

It's his social media.

He's incredibly transparent.

As you all know, you hear from him directly on social media.

Likes to share memes.

He likes to share videos.

He likes to repost things that he sees other people post on social media as well.

And I think it's quite refreshing that we have a president who is so open and honest directly himself.

Many a times on truth.

You are hearing directly from the president.

Well, look, this is a creative solution by the President of the United States to tackle our nation's crippling debt crisis.

As I said earlier, we are $37 trillion, trillion with a T, in debt.

And not only is the President effectively utilizing tariffs to bring in massive amounts of revenue, and there's billions of dollars coming in every month.

I know you know that even because you cover it on CNBC quite well.

So the President is focused on how can the United States government make more money?

How can we make our country

wealthy and rich again and cutting some of these unique creative deals with companies around the world and here at home is just one way the president is seeking to do that.

And I know.

We've been talking about the Affordable Care Act, enhanced premium tax credits, and sort of the politics of it all, right?

But this is a very real, tangible impact that American people will feel.

The Kaiser Family Foundation says that with the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, without them, premiums will go up 114% on average.

19 million of the 24 million people who rely on the coverage

are in states that President Trump won.

Is he concerned what will happen to those families if this tax credit expires?

And aside from the shutdown, is there a plan to keep those premiums down?

Look, as the vice president just said, we are more than happy to have this conversation.

The president and the vice president and this team are more than happy to have that conversation with Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill.

But it cannot happen right now.

Right now, we need to reopen the United States federal government.

I would reject there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration.

There was, however,

significant inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten and in many cases killed over our United States southern border.

You also look at the inhumane treatment at the hands of some of these illegal immigrants that took place

under the previous administration as well.

Lake and Riley comes to mind a beautiful American citizen who was killed at the hands of an illegal.

Unfortunately, because the Democrats shut down the government, the president has directed his cabinet and the Office of Management and Budget is working with agencies across the board to identify where cuts can be made.

And we believe that layoffs are imminent.

They are unfortunately a consequence of this government shutdown.