Biden pushes back on claims jobs numbers are fake

President Joe Biden seized on two fronts of good economic news Friday — making his first appearance in the White House briefing room as president to celebrate a swift end to the port strike and a stronger-than-expected jobs report — and pushing back on critics who called the numbers fake. “I’m going to be very careful here, but if you notice anything the MAGA Republicans don’t like they call fake,” Biden told reporters. “The job numbers are what the job numbers are. They’re real. They’re sincere.” Biden said the healthy September jobs report showed the administration had proven critics wrong. “The simple fact is, we’ve gone from economy in crisis to literally having the strongest economy in the world,” Biden said. The president also congratulated the Union and port owners coming to an agreement that will keep East Coast and Gulf ports open, saying they had “averted what could have been come a major crisis for the country.”

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