Institute senior economist and policy. Of good morning to you. I want to start with a new york headline that caught your attention over the weekend asically saying as jobs grow and dow climbs trump takes credit. Question, should he . What do you this . Guest it is a Pretty Simple know. The momentum in the labor market started before he came into if anything it slowed we t the last six months added 179,000 jobs on average. To per month compares 208,000 over the same six months last year. Anything it is a little bit of a slowdown but generally thumb is the president takes credit. Before we e a while can see any trump effect. Host Stephen Moore. Guest the economy has accelerated almost in every regard. A good jobs report on friday and that is a a good report we had the months before. The stock market, we saw what appened the day after the election where it went up 700 points. Investors are very encouraged nd anticipating this trump agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and so on. Grew 1. 5 wit
Know. The momentum in the labor market started before he came into if anything it slowed we t the last six months added 179,000 jobs on average. To per month compares 208,000 over the same six months last year. Anything it is a little bit of a slowdown but generally thumb is the president takes credit. Before we e a while can see any trump effect. Host Stephen Moore. Guest the economy has accelerated almost in every regard. A good jobs report on friday and that is a a good report we had the months before. The stock market, we saw what appened the day after the election where it went up 700 points. Investors are very encouraged nd anticipating this trump agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and so on. Grew 1. 5 with obama last year so it was de decelerating. Now we are seeing an acceleration of the economy. Point i would make about everybody looking at right now in the Washington Times i think trump has to get the tax cut passed to keep the momentum going. You see a record high stock market
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Question was how republicans would rate the president and the Republican Majority Congress so far. Host and this final segment, we are asking you to grade republican grade President Trump and the republican congress. The gop controls the house and senate and have a friend in the white house. That is one reason why paul ryan is saying this will be the most Successful Congress ever. There is a piece in the hill that says ryan and cysts gop lawmakers are on track to ryaness their agenda insists gop lawmakers are on track to complete their agenda. During an interview with fox news, speaker ryan said this about the jump agenda in congress. I heard everything from obamacare will be done day one, to the spring, to the summer, to by the end of the year. Its been all over the map. At it hasnt been all over the net for me. Its been all over the map for the press. In congress, we are exactly on the timeline we set for ourselves. The plan is repealed and replaced the law, like we said. He ran on a
Question was how republicans would rate the president and the Republican Majority Congress so far. Host and this final segment, we are asking you to grade republican grade President Trump and the republican congress. The gop controls the house and senate and have a friend in the white house. That is one reason why paul ryan is saying this will be the most Successful Congress ever. There is a piece in the hill that says ryan and cysts gop lawmakers are on track to ryaness their agenda insists gop lawmakers are on track to complete their agenda. During an interview with fox news, speaker ryan said this about the jump agenda in congress. I heard everything from obamacare will be done day one, to the spring, to the summer, to by the end of the year. Its been all over the map. At it hasnt been all over the net for me. Its been all over the map for the press. In congress, we are exactly on the timeline we set for ourselves. The plan is repealed and replaced the law, like we said. He ran on a