After Shockingly Low Job Numbers Report, Biden Insists: ‘Economy is Moving in the Right Direction, But It Is Clear We Have a Long Way To Go’

In a tweet today, POLITICO reporter Megan Cassella said, “I thought this was a glitch on my computer. U.S. added 266K jobs last month, when ~1 million had been expected.”

U.S. House Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) quote tweeted Cassella and stated, “You can’t pay people not to work and expect to have a great jobs report, but that’s what President Biden is doing.”

You can’t pay people not to work and expect to have a great jobs report.

But that’s what President Biden is doing. https://t.co/bTCUU2u6Pb

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 7, 2021

Communication director for the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) noted in a tweet, “You know it’s bad when the CNN chyron reads “Major Disappointment” and a Democrat is in the White House…”

Yahoo News titled their article, “Job numbers disappoint as Biden continues to push infrastructure plan.”

As Cassella said, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported just 266,000 new jobs over the month of April after some experts expected potentially a million.

It was also reported that unemployment also rose slightly, to 6.1 percent from 6.0 percent and that there was worse news for March numbers, which saw a revision down to 777,000 from the original 916,000 increase reported last month.

President Joe Biden, however, appears unfazed by it all thus far as he addressed the numbers in a statement at the White House and insisted that “our economy is moving in the right direction but it is clear we have a long way to go.”

From Yahoo News:

“Listening to commentators today as I was getting dressed you might think we should be disappointed,” Biden said of the numbers with a laugh, “but when we passed the American Rescue Plan I want to remind everybody it was designed to help us over the course of a year, not 60 days, a year. We never thought over the first 50 or 60 days everything would be fine.”

“Today there is more evidence our economy is moving in the right direction but it is clear we have a long way to go,” Biden said, adding, “To state the obvious, we have work to do.”

The president continued to lobby hard for his American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion legislative package he hopes would put Americans to work at everything from repairing roads and bridges to overhauling the country’s electrical grid and expanding broadband internet. Biden focused on the proposal during his joint address to Congress last week.

“Nearly 90 percent of the infrastructure jobs created by the American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree,” Biden said. “Seventy-five percent don’t require an associate’s degree. The American Jobs Plan is a blue-collar blueprint to build America, that’s what it is.”

Biden continued promoting the package Thursday in Lake Charles, La., tying the plan to the push to fight climate change, saying, “When I think about the threats of hurricanes and global warming and then the poor condition of our economy as it relates particularly to infrastructure, I think of one thing: I think of jobs. Jobs. Jobs.”