President Joe Biden hailed the latest unemployment numbers as vindicating his economic policies, while Republicans suggested GOP-controlled statehouses deserved the credit.
Biden, who has been repeating that the economy “is on the move,” reiterated people are “getting back to work in every corner of the country.”
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“Right now, 17 states are at or tied with the lowest unemployment rate they’ve ever had — and 20 states have jobless rates below 3%,” he said Friday. “Over the last year, the unemployment rate dropped in every state, and many states have reached historic lows.”
Biden was adamant the numbers were not “an accident.” Instead, they were “the direct result” of his work “to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.”
“There’s still more work to do to build on this recovery and bring down costs for working families — and my administration is working on that every day — but we can’t lose sight of how far, and how quickly, we’ve come,” he said.
But Biden’s statement citing the Bureau of Labor Statistics data was quickly chased by opponents from the Republican National Committee and the Republican Governors Association.
“Out of the top 25 states with the lowest unemployment rates, 20 are led by Republican governors and 21 have Republican-controlled legislatures,” the RNC said. Seventeen “states hit new record low unemployment rates, 13 of which have Republican governors and 16 have Republican-controlled legislatures.”
“While hard-working American families battle with record high costs of groceries and gas and struggle to keep the lights on, Republican governors protect good-paying jobs, foster strong economies, and offer real relief by putting money back in their pockets,” RGA spokesman Jesse Hunt added.
The White House has not yet responded to inquiries from the Washington Examiner seeking to clarify Biden’s figures.
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Biden’s average economic job approval is 36%, with 59% disapproval, as consumer prices rose 8.5% in the 12 months before March 31, the highest inflation rate in more than four decades and more than what was expected.
