happy good friday. i m bill hemmer. happy good friday to you. it s time to break out some colors, i decided, indeed. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. let s get you to the numbers. the united states added 236,000 jobs last month. that is the weakest growth since december of 2020. unemployment it ticked down to 3.5%. we re crunching the numbers. hello, steve. is this good? is this bad? what s it tell smart guys like you? what it tells you that things are beginning to slow. what is more important is what happened earlier this week, the report on manufacturing. report on surfaces, isns, purchase managers, a very good indicator of what s about to happen. manufacturing is in a serious decline. services, which have been a mainstay in terms of people being able to spend on services again after the lockdowns, that s beginning to show signs of weakening. people s savings are beginning to be run down. credit card debt is beginning to go up. the storm clouds are there
yes, we got out a lot of afghans, but we left a lot of afghan allies behind. veterans like myself are still working every day to try to get them to freedom before they re massacred by the taliban. yes, the troops did great work, and a lot of people were saved. and it was a difficult environment. let s look at why we got to that place in the first place. it was in large part because we simply didn t start this evacuation soon enough. talk to me about some of those special immigrant visa holders that cannot get to the united states, and the state department backlog that still exists today. some statistics, i ve seen, it could take 18 years to get through that. so that means we didn t keep our promise to those afghans that helped us. i mean, look, veterans feel passionately about this, because we put our lives in the hands of these afghans. these afghans put their lives in our hands. we promised to have their backs.
something else in the midst of all this when it comes to president biden, this issue of what now is breaking news that 82,000 people who came in from afghanistan were not at all that it. being exposed, the washington examiner, almost none of the 82,000 people who were airlifted in august were that it. 82,000, they were admitted to the united states according to a congressional memo, the administration also brought into the us tens of thousands of afghans were not qualified on any single level regarding why they should be here, a large majority of people, 75%, they were not american citizens, not green card holders, not afghan special immigrant visa holders but were effectively strangers to us and now we are finding virtually no personal interviews done of these people. what can happen at this point?
that apparently 82,000 people who came in from afghanistan were not at all vetted. being exposed. almost none of the 82,000 people who were air lifted from kabul in august were vetted. 82,000. admitted to the united states according to a congressional memo. the administration brought into the u.s. tens of thousands of afghans not qualified on any level why they should be here. this is a large majority of people. 75%. not american citizens and not green card holders and not afghan special immigrant visa holders. now we are finding there were no personal interviews done with these people. what are you going to do to hold this administration accountable with what will happen here?
On October 25, 2021, President Biden announced plans to revoke the current country-by-country travel restrictions to the United States which have been in place since January 2020.