DAVID FOLKENFLIK, HOST:
The U.S. economy dominated the rhetoric from the two presidential campaigns last week. Here's some voices from the trail.
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JD VANCE: She says she's having fun. But while she's having fun, Americans are suffering under her policies. When she laughs during a speech, remember that there are American families crying this very day because they cannot afford groceries.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And get this - you may have heard about the MAGA Republican Project 2025 plan.
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BIDEN: They want to repeal Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices. Let Big Pharma back to charge whatever they want. Let me tell you what our Project 2025 is - beat the hell out of them.
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VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Under my plan, more than 100 million Americans will get a tax cut. And we will do this by restoring two tax cuts designed to help middle class and working Americans - the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, through which millions of Americans with children got to keep more of their hard-earned income. We know this works.
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DONALD TRUMP: To get economic relief to workers and families, I will make the Trump tax cuts permanent, and we will have no tax on tips, which she copied. She copied. You all know by now she came out a few days ago, and she said, there will be no tax. I said, I said that months ago. But here's one that she hasn't copied yet - to help seniors on fixed incomes who are suffering the ravages of horrible inflation caused by Crooked Joe and Kamala. There will be no tax on Social Security. So get out - and I get it done. I will get it done. They won't. They haven't even promised. They won't... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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