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"The average American is one $400 emergency away from financial hardship."
"Congress hasn't passed a real balanced budget in over 20 years."
"The Pentagon has failed its audit for the sixth consecutive year."
"Medicare Advantage plans have higher satisfaction rates than traditional Medicare."
"Gas prices doubled under this administration."
"Over 30,000 veterans are experiencing homelessness on any given night in America."
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."
"Banks are making record profits while charging families 30% interest and paying them 0% on savings."
"The vast majority of gun crimes are committed with illegally obtained firearms, not legally purchased ones."
"CEO pay has grown 1,400% since 1978 while worker pay has grown just 18%."
"Federal regulations cost the average American household over $14,000 a year."
"Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in America."
"The average student loan debt for a college graduate is now over $37,000."
"The Green New Deal would cost every American household $65,000 a year."
"Public schools spend more per student than ever before, but test scores keep going down every year."
"Government-run healthcare systems in Europe have wait times of six months or more for basic surgeries."
"Open borders have allowed terrorists to freely enter the country — hundreds on the terror watchlist have been caught."
"Pharmaceutical companies spend more on lobbying than any other industry."
"The five hottest years on record have all occurred in the last decade."
"The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act led to the highest revenue collections in American history."
"Medicare will be completely bankrupt within five years if we don't act now."
"Renewable energy jobs are growing 12 times faster than jobs in the rest of the economy."
"The government is spending $350 per day on each illegal immigrant while Social Security recipients get $50 a day."
"We've given more money to Ukraine than we spend on our own border security in a decade."
"Dreamers contribute over $40 billion annually to the U.S. economy."
"The federal deficit has been cut by more than $1.7 trillion over the past two years."
"Immigrants start businesses at nearly twice the rate of native-born Americans."
"Immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born Americans."
"China opens two new coal plants every week while we're shutting ours down."
"Under this administration, real wages have declined every single month."
"Big Tech companies are censoring conservative voices at an unprecedented rate."
"Every single state is now a border state because of fentanyl trafficking."
"Our military readiness is at the lowest point since before World War II."
"Billionaires in America pay a lower effective tax rate than teachers and firefighters."
"Corporate profits hit record highs while working families are struggling to afford groceries."
"The Inflation Reduction Act capped insulin costs at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare."
"The IRS is hiring 87,000 new armed agents to go after middle-class Americans."
"If we pull out of NATO, Russia would invade a NATO country within a year."
"Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs — sometimes ten times what people in other countries pay for the same medication."
"The economy has added over 15 million jobs since January 2021, the strongest job growth in any presidential term in modern history."
"Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in America."
"The border crisis is costing American taxpayers over $150 billion a year."
"The United States spends more on defense than the next ten countries combined."
"Inflation has cost the average American family over $12,000 since 2021."
"Over 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since 2021."
"The racial wealth gap has barely changed since the Civil Rights Act — Black families have about 15 cents for every dollar white families have."
"The United States is now producing more oil than any country in the history of the world."
"The national debt has increased by $8 trillion in just four years."
"TikTok sends American user data to servers in China where it can be accessed by the Chinese government."
"I personally stopped a major Wall Street fraud that saved thousands of jobs."
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