Press Releases from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

DFLers slam Trump on long-term jobs strategy as July BLS report shows slowdown in hiring

08/07/2020

Following the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report this morning, DFL leaders are speaking out about Trump’s failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and the devastating impact it’s had on Minnesota’s economy. Today’s jobs report reflects a slowdown in hiring after Trump’s failure to contain the virus forced many states back into lockdown. America is hurting, and we’re still 12.9 million jobs under where we were in February. This continued bad news comes as Joe Biden has put forward his own plan to create millions of new manufacturing jobs and ensure the future is made in all of America by all of America’s workers.

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Minnesota Farmers Sound Off on Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jason Lewis’ Past Comments That We Should Let Farms Fail

08/04/2020

After the Star Tribune shared previously unreported comments made by Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jason Lewis on farming–including that America has “glamorized” farming and saying that it was “naive” for members of Congress to run on “not one more farm going under”–Minnesota farmers and members of the agriculture community are rightfully outraged.

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Jason Lewis Doubles Down on Letting Minnesota Farms Fail

08/03/2020

Just hours after the Star Tribune revealed Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis’ past comments demeaning the agriculture community, and his record of voting against the bipartisan Farm Bill, Lewis doubled down in a new interview saying, “I don’t take back anything I said” and “I have nothing to take back.”

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DFL Party Statement on Trump’s Push to Delay the 2020 Election

07/30/2020

Today, Minnesota DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin issued the following statement on Donald Trump’s push to delay the 2020 elections:

“Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: President Trump is suggesting we delay the 2020 election almost immediately after the United States surpassed 150,000 deaths due to COVID-19 and suffered the worst economic nosedive in American history.

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DFL on Trump’s continued attacks on ACA in middle of pandemic

07/29/2020

Yesterday marked the three year anniversary of the day Senator John McCain joined with Senate Democrats and voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act, temporarily saving the landmark legislation responsible for providing affordable health care for millions of Minnesotans. After failing in Congress, Donald Trump turned to the courts to continue his relentless push to repeal the ACA with no replacement plan.

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DFL Party Leaders Criticize Trump for Failing Indigenous People

07/27/2020

“While Trump and his cronies may show up for a campaign photo op, it’s clear they won’t show up when it actually matters”
Today, as Ivanka Trump prepares to visit Bloomington, Minnesota, to attend the opening of a Missing and Murdered Native American Cold Case Office, leaders of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party criticized the Trump administration for failing to seriously and materially support Tribal Nations.

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