>>This is dog bites man.
>>This person is a spokesman for the Trump administration.
>>If he said that things were getting worse under Trump, that would be news.
Not quite- the Council is there to advise the president, but the current chairman volunteered to share the data at the press conference. I can't find that happening under some of the previous administrations, but delighted to be shown wrong.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
