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Nicholas Begich: “All of those great wage gains that we had under the Trump…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 17:22

During inflation. One of the interesting things that you've seen, and it's really, it's really sad and it's really tough, you see All of those great wage gains that we had under the Trump administration. It's net negative now. if you look at the last 15, 16 months of real wages, that's wages after adjusting for inflation, people are going backwards. We're actually losing purchasing power over this last year and a half. (17:22–17:31)

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Asserts that wage gains from the Trump administration have become net negative.

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