was being mischaracterized. so i do care a lot about it. my whole team was furloughed, they were not paid, i was not being paid, and the notion that i didn t care about it was ridiculous. what i care about today is the amazing jobs number. north of 300,000 is astonishing. you lead with one of the most important points that makes the number even more amazing is the 100th straight month of job fwans. the economy is like a runner running forward with a rubber band attached to his waste and the further you get away from the anchor the harder it is to keep going. a year or two ago they were expecting that by now we would be looking at 90,000 a month. it is so hard to create jobs so
should accelerate going into this year. and wage growth, the reason we have talked about it for so many years is for most people the 4% unemployment don t mean anything unless they get a reaction to it and usually that reaction is wage growth. so when you hope for 4% are you saying with inflation where it is now. if you got 3.5 inflation and 4% rage growth you re not doing as well. yeah, but just do go back to what the strong job market means, we have looked at a lot of statistics, and what makes it so wonderful is that the expansion is continuing, and that the people in the past that have been mar final iginalizedm. the number of homeless veterans reporting their homeless declined by more than
that will step out and said good things for these people is important. jimmy carter they are speaking out for cory booker. we got this from open secrets dot org. they have a lot of money from lawyers and law if i weres. three million and two million respectively. you pharmaceuticals and health products there. the corey booker you re looking at right now, they have changed in significant ways in the last five years. but if you go back to 10 or 15 years og he cultivated but as mayor of newark he raised a lot of money.
another $1.6 billion approved, now $1.3 billion approved. do you need appropriations from congress? we re appropriated. we have a lot of appropriation. a lot of it is dope. we have things we have not done yet, we re considering a national mrm. you saw there he weaves in and out between fact and fix. we re renovating new wall, that is true. he is talking about the fact that the dhs is approved to repair existing wall. there are existing levee projects ongoing but nowhere along the border is new ball being built. when artificial intelligence with live fact check the president what else will we do
it is confused because he is disrepresenting or lying about the facts. we know there is 1954 miles from coast to coast. you have over 650 miles of barrier that existed before he was ever president. since his election, zero miles of new wall, not a single inch i wish we could make the graphic on the screen bigger. maybe just a big fat zero, nothing else on the screen. i don t mean to interrupt you, zero miles of new wall have been built to date, thank you. right, so now that we re armed with the facts, take a listen to what he had to say earlier today in the cabinet room and we ll talk more on the other side. we have a lot of machine. we have $1.6 approved, now