i spoke with members of the business round table, of the big business guys, asked why i m so pro labor, you save them money. what you do lasts and through the american rescue plan, we re funding work force development programs, including 128 million here in wisconsin, so american workers prepared to compete in the economy we re building. this is a blue collar, blueprint to rebuild america. and we re also doing something that for years, people just talked about. we re going to buy american for everything we build. last night, i announced we re proposing new standards to require all construction materials be made in america. american lumber, american glass, american dry wall, american fiberoptics. american roads, bridges, highways, made with american products. my first two years in office, we ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. where? i mean, it sincerely. jobs you can live on. where is it written american can t lead the world of manufacturing? i didn t see it written anywhe
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. today s final jobs report before election day was just what the white house was hoping for. 261,000 jobs beating expectations from economists, but not too high to further drive up inflation. this goldilocks number helps the president make the case for his party in the final sprint to november 8th. former president trump is also on the campaign trail. he ll be in pennsylvania tomorrow pushing for the republican in one of the tightest races for senate that is key to determining who will control congress. pennsylvania has seen more than 1 million votes cast and is just one of several key battleground states where the early vote appears to be record-breaking. in total, more than 34 million americans have already cast their ballots. cnn s correspondents are following it all. we begin in the neck-and-neck race for senate. today is the final day of early in-person vot
year i reduced the deficit by $350 billion! and you know how much i m going to reduce the deficit this year? $1,500,000 reduction in the deficit. and, by the way, just by dealing with allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, it means medicare doesn t have to pay out that many tax dollars to buy them. that alone is going to reach over time $300 billion reduced in the deficit. you would think the republicans really cared about reducing inflation, they would vote for the inflation reduction act, but every single republican in the house and senate voted against it. now, i admit someone voted against it they thought it made sense but they couldn t let biden, quote, have a victory. it s not my victory. it s the american people s victory. here in america every single republican voted against lowering prescription drug prices, against lowering health care costs, against protecting your pensions, against lower energy costs, against creating good paying jobs, against a fairer tax sy
manufacturing jobs in america today. unions in this country now have the support, whether they re union members or not, of over 60% of the american people. never before have unions been that popular. labor. unions, unions. over 60% of the american people think it s important, because they re figuring out, you are the bulwark against access. you re the ones. you re the ones. and by the way, you know, like all of you i shouldn t say all. like many of you i wasn t raised poor, but we weren t wealthy. we live in the a three-bedroom split level home in a little town called a little area called mayfield in delaware, with four kids a mom and a dad and a grandpop living with us. but we were all right. we could always tell when things were going rough. two sets of bunches in one room. you could hear my dead when he was restless, hear the head board moving. i remember asking mom, what s wrong with dad? she said, honey, we just lost our insurance. people shouldn t have to face that
democrat congressman tim ryan. only 54% of democrats approve of the president s handling of the economy as whispers of a recession grow much louder and inflation straps family budgets. let s bring in buckeye state republican congressman jim jordan. he s the top republican on the house judicially committee. congressman, great to have you on. this is the sixth time the president has visited your state. he clearly believes he s got a captive audience there. your thoughts. he might believe that. but what is it? nine out of ten fellow citizens think the country is on the wrong track. that s up 15 points from two months ago. that s how bad things are. i don t know that making a trip to ohio will change things. you mentioned the senate race. where is tim ryan? i don t think he will be with president biden today. the president makes the sixth visit to your state and you re running for senate and you won t show up? that tells you about this administration and how wrong the policy is