Legislator: We should not waste any more of the taxpayers’ money on the government’s job-creation program. The unemployment rate in this country has actually risen since the program was begun, so the program has clearly been a failure.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the legislator’s argument depends

A．The budget of the job-creation program has typically increased every year.

B．The unemployment rate would not have risen even more than it has if the job-creation program had not been in existence.

C．The unemployment rate is higher now than at any time before the inception of the job-creation program.

D．If the job-creation program had been run more efficiently, it could have better served its purpose.

E．(E) Other government programs are no more effective in reducing unemployment than is the job-creation program.