On Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took his best shot at finding a downside to the estimated 250,000 jobs that employers added in October, which kept the unemployment rate steady at 3.7 percent.

“The latest jobs numbers may look good, but we must not forget they coexist with a huge deficit-ballooning GOP tax break that went mainly to the wealthy, for which we will pay a price for down the road,” the senator said. “When the average family sees their healthcare costs go up because of Republican actions, these numbers will mean little.”