Trump’s Economy is Bleeding Jobs, So Instead He’s Taking Credit Democrats’ Infrastructure Wins That He Railed Against Arrow

In response to new reporting highlighting how Donald Trump is taking credit for infrastructure projects funded through President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, despite railing against them, DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin released the following statement:

"America is bleeding manufacturing jobs under Donald Trump, and instead of lifting a finger to actually help the American worker, Trump is resorting to his old tricks: lying and taking credit for someone else's work. Here are the facts: Trump railed against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law when it passed, calling the historic investments a 'loser.' Now, as our economy sputters, experts increasingly expect a recession, and tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs get destroyed, Trump is trying to use the Biden administration's successes he vehemently opposed as a lifeboat. It's clear once again that Donald Trump is the real loser."

Historic investments in manufacturing and infrastructure construction led to a jobs boom in the United States under the Biden-Harris administration. In less than a year, Donald Trump's chaotic policies have squandered that progress and destroyed tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs.

Investopedia: "Workers Were Promised More Factory Jobs-They've Lost 12,000 in August Instead"

"Tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs: instead, the U.S. has lost 12,000 over the past month.

"August was the fourth straight month of declines for manufacturing jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, as part of a report that showed an overall slump in the job market. Manufacturing employment is down 78,000 since last August, and there are now fewer people working in the sector than at any time since March 2022."

CNN: "Trump's shock-and-awe tariffs haven't fueled a manufacturing jobs boom"

"Factory hiring plunged in May, below even the Covid-19 pandemic pace, to the weakest rate since 2016 under President Barack Obama, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing job openings - a sign of what's to come - have plunged by nearly 100,000 since Trump took office.

"Instead of giving bosses a reason to hire, the whiplash approach to the trade war is sowing confusion and uncertainty. CEOs need clarity on where tariffs will be in the long run. But under Trump, it's not even clear where tariffs will be at the end of the day, let alone the end of the year.

"'It's a policy choice to sow this much uncertainty. And that uncertainty has a cost,' said Betsey Stevenson, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and a former chief economist at the Department of Labor under Obama."

Instead of changing course and supporting job creation, the Trump administration is plastering signs with Donald Trump's name at the sites of infrastructure projects funded by President Biden's historic 2021 Infrastructure Law - which Trump railed against and once called "a loser for the U.S.A."

New York Times: "'PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP' a sign by the road declares. 'REBUILDING AMERICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE.'

"In recent months, a number of similar signs have popped up in front of major infrastructure projects financed by the bipartisan 2021 legislation, a $1.2 trillion package that Mr. Trump, who left office in January of that year, had passionately railed against. He called the bill 'a loser for the U.S.A.,' and warned that Republican lawmakers who signed on could be thrown out of office by angry primary voters. 'Patriots will never forget!' he wrote.

"The signs note, in a smaller font, that the projects in question are 'funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,' the official name of the legislation that Mr. Trump tried to derail. …

"Representative Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat who represents the area where the Connecticut River Bridge is being replaced, said seeing the sign with Mr. Trump's name there 'is just, you know, very odd to me.'

"He added: 'That bridge would never have gotten where it is today without that bill, which he opposed.'"

This isn't the first time Trump touted Biden's accomplishments as his own. Back in July, the Trump administration tried to take credit for more than $1 trillion in U.S. investments made under President Biden.

Reuters: "But a Reuters review found that just under half of the claimed spending on the website - totaling more than $1.3 trillion - originated under former President Joe Biden or represented routine spending repackaged to promote domestic investments.

"At least eight of the projects touted by the White House had sought or secured critical local incentive packages before Trump took office while at least a half dozen other projects had already been announced by local officials or the companies themselves. …

"Two of the Trump Effect projects were aided by Biden's legislative efforts to boost domestic manufacturing, the review found."