manufacturing jobs in america have been growing at a great clip. this will make them grow even faster and make us more competitive with china. so we have done some things in a big bipartisan way. the veterans health bill, the burn pit bill that we just passed recently, the bill where we re investigating in mental health and tackling gun violence. but on these two issues that this bill was about today, the costs of health care and prescription drugs, and making real progress on tackling climate change, we only had democratic votes. it was a challenge to hold our caucus together. leader schumer deserves a lot of credit for doing so. and in the end, after a fair amount of work, we were able to get this done. and i so look forward to president biden signing this bill into law. this measure is on its way to the house. do you feel like you re more likely to get bipartisan support there? i think it s very unlikely that we ll get bipartisan support in the house, unfortunately. as you know,
united states has the fastest economic growth in nearly four decades. [applause] along with the greatest year of job growth in america history, 6.4 million jobs created in one year. instead of losing manufacturing jobs, since i ve been in office, america has added an additional 367,000 manufacturing jobs in america. good paying jobs. the highest increase in u.s. manufacturing jobs in 30 years. last week the ceo of intel came to the white house because he wanted to support the build back better initiative and to also let it be known two of your neighboring senators were there, portman and brown, a democrat and republican from ohio. he came to announce the semi won
decades along with [ applause ] along with the greatest year of job growth in american history, 6.4 million jobs created in one year. and instead of losing manufacturing jobs, since i ve been in office, america has actually added an additional 367,000 manufacturing jobs in america. good-paying jobs. the highest increase in u.s. manufacturing jobs in 30 years. last week the ceo of intel, pat kelsinger, came to the white house because he wanted to support the build back better initiative and to also let me know two of your neighboring senators were there, portman and brown, a democrat and republican from ohio. he came to announce the new $20 billion semiconductor campus outside of columbus, ohio.
market is reacting somewhat negatively to what would otherwise be a good number. sandra: dow futures down more than 100 points. despite what would otherwise be a spectacular jobs report we might see a down open. looking at the overall unemployment numbers where is the biggest growth in jobs? my favorite thing. i call them dirty fingernail job. earlier in the week we said we had 53,000 a month this year. by far the most ever. i went back a few decades and couldn t find. last month according to the government 49,000. we are talking 17,000 construction jobs. remember all the rain? that was bad weather. mining 8,000 mining jobs. 2016 we lost 5,000 jobs a month in mining. we gained 8,000. manufacturing remember they said it count be done? now we re approaching 300,000 manufacturing jobs in america
talk to his team. the tape that could be the nail in the coffin for his career. that s not going go of very well. the agency in charge of cutting government costs makes a joke out of it in a new web video, this after it blew almost $1 million on a las vegas conference. a japanese ghost ship that was drifting off the coast of alaska now sleeps with the fishes. new video of the coast guard unloading the cannons on it. up first, it s the missing piece of the recovery, the critical jobs report for march is due out in about three and a half hours. a report with the potential to shake up the 2012 election. christine romans will tell us what we can expect today. christine? good morning. you re right it has the potential to shake up the election but more importantly we hope it shapes up your jobs prospects. this is the trend over the year. looking for in march 200,000 jobs created for the month. 200,000, an unemployment rate of 8.3 or 8.2%. i want to put it in context for you