LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON DECEMBER JOBS REPORT

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued the following statement on the December Jobs Report, which showed the economy added 223,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate, at 3.5 percent, is back to pre-pandemic levels: 

“Led by President Biden, Democrats in the House and Senate have delivered tremendous results for the American people. Today’s report shows that during the first two years of the Biden Presidency, the United States gained a record 10.7 million good-paying jobs and the unemployment rate is at the lowest level in 50 years. 

In the historic 117th Congress, House Democrats passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to put millions of Americans to work, the American Rescue Plan to jumpstart our economic recovery and the CHIPS and Science Act to bring domestic manufacturing jobs back home.

House Democrats are unified and ready to build upon this track record of putting People Over Politics to create better-paying jobs here in America. It is our hope that House Republicans will end their historic dysfunction, abandon extremism and join Democrats in fighting For The People.”

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