Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confers with his communications aide, Matt House, as he speaks to reporters following a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confers with his communications aide, Matt House, as he speaks to reporters following a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Credit: AP

In a news release from Senate Democrats on Monday, Charles Shumer said that in the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, “more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018.”

Our ruling

Schumer and the Senate Democrats said that in the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, “more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018.”

The number of layoffs in that period was actually 34 times higher than the number cited — and the layoff rate has actually been declining consistently for the past eight years.

We rate the statement Mostly False.

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