White House Weekly: June 15

Published June 15, 2020 10:30am ET



We start on Friday, June 5th, President Trump gets a surprisingly huge win when the Labor Department reports that the U.S. unemployment rate declined to 13.3 percent in May with 2.5 million new jobs added after the rate had skyrocketed to 14.7 percent in April from the coronavirus pandemic. Economists originally forecasted that the unemployment rate would increase to around 20 percent.

Meanwhile, Trump directs the Pentagon to remove 9,500 troops from Germany, a move that reportedly reflects the growing tensions between Washington and Berlin over the dispute of military spending and other matters relating to global security.

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