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Joining us now to discuss the state of the economy and how it's shaping up for 2025 is Heritage Research Fellow E.J. Antoni. E.J., first of all, thank you so much for coming on. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. We recently had an interesting statement from President Biden at a speech at the Brookings Institution. He says that he's handed Trump the strongest economy ever. Here's the moment.
Don't take my word for it. Here's how Time Magazine and other commentators describe the economy. I'm leaving to my successor, and there's a number of these quotes. President-elect Trump has received the strongest economy in modern history, which is the envy of the world.
As we've documented here, the priority issue for voters this election was the economy. Obviously, there's lots of concerns about the state of the economy because of inflation. Do you agree with President Biden that this is the greatest economy ever?
Well, I would love to know by what metric he is using to determine that this is the greatest economy ever. I mean, look at inflation, for example. He is handing President Trump an economy with a higher inflation rate than it ever was at any point during Trump's first term. So this idea that somehow the economy is firing on all cylinders, I'm sorry, I just don't see the evidence for that.
You know, there are fewer... native-born Americans with jobs today than there were in 2019, five years ago before the pandemic. Again, by what metric are we using to say that the economy is better now than it ever has been before? What's better now than it ever has been before is government employment. The number of people employed by the government, over 23 million.
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