The Republican presidential nominee projected audaciously that millions of new jobs would be created broadly within a two-term Trump presidency
Donald Trump attempted to combat widespread criticism of his sketchy economic policies by setting out what he presented as a new vision for the country that he audaciously claimed would create 25m new jobs in a decade and put the American worker first.
Addressing one of the country’s most august economic debating societies, the Economic Club of New York, the Republican presidential nominee sought to dispel the criticism that has dogged his campaign that his mathematics do not add up in balancing tax cuts and new spending. Sticking closely to a pre-prepared script – despite an initial malfunctioning of his teleprompter – he delivered a speech that was billed in advance by his senior advisers as the culmination of his thinking on how to get America back to work.
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