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It speaks volumes that tomorrow we have a communist coming to the White House because that s who the Democrat Party elected as the Mayor of the largest city in the country. President Trump is willing to meet with anyone and talk to anyone and to try to do what s right on behalf of the American people, whether they live in blue states or red states.

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00:00:05.760 It speaks volumes that tomorrow we have a communist coming to the White House
00:00:10.280 because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country.
00:00:15.640 I think it's very telling, but I also think it speaks to the fact that
00:00:18.440 President Trump is willing to meet with anyone and talk to anyone
00:00:22.540 and to try to do what's right on behalf of the American people,
00:00:26.180 whether they live in blue states or red states.
00:00:28.460 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:32.680 Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:36.400 And we've got one big story for you, and it deals with the economy.
00:00:40.620 Massive job growth that was unexpected by the experts and the media completely silent on it.
00:00:47.600 This is they're also trying to claim that Donald Trump's economy is a disaster.
00:00:52.480 Well, the numbers don't back that up at all.
00:00:54.640 And I'm going to give you all of what the president had to say at the White House on this as well in just a moment.
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00:02:54.560 Story number one. 1.00
00:02:55.720 There's an old saying in politics, it's the economy, stupid. 0.99
00:02:59.080 It's an important one, because if Americans feel like the economy is not going in the right direction, 0.99
00:03:04.260 they almost always blame whoever is in charge of the country, the President of the United States of America.
00:03:11.820 Well, there are a lot of Americans right now that are not happy where pricing is and where the economy is.
00:03:18.060 It's part of the reason why President Donald Trump was elected president.
00:03:21.620 But Democrats are seizing this moment to now say that Donald Trump's economy is a disaster.
00:03:27.580 The Trump White House, they're fighting back and working to fix what they describe as the affordability crisis
00:03:35.060 and proving that they're making significant progress in this area after Americans suffered under Bidenflation for years.
00:03:44.260 The White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt pointing out during Thursday's press briefing just how bad things were,
00:03:50.460 saying, quote,
00:03:51.740 These gains came after the summer passage of President Trump's historic tax cuts
00:03:56.800 and multiple big trade deals with countries around the world.
00:04:00.680 In particular, construction jobs have surged by 19,000 in September,
00:04:04.860 the largest monthly gain in a year.
00:04:08.720 She also pointed out that most of this growth came from private sector
00:04:13.620 This, Leavitt pointed out, is the opposite of what we saw under the Biden administration.
00:04:25.900 She also reminded Americans of this, that inflation also remains under control
00:04:31.380 and wages are up 3.8% over the year for American workers
00:04:37.120 because of President Trump's pro-growth policies.
00:04:40.420 In fact, real wages are at a pace to increase roughly $1,200 for the average worker this year,
00:04:48.900 alone under President Donald Trump.
00:04:51.580 Now, if the economy is in such bad shape, how is it that wages are going up like this?
00:04:57.940 Now, there's no doubt that a lot of the money we're making now is going to goods and services that are high price.
00:05:04.200 The president also working on that, saying, quote,
00:05:08.040 What we're doing, this is a complete reversal.
00:05:12.120 When we saw inflation skyrocket to 9%,
00:05:15.520 causing private sector workers to see their wages decline by approximately $3,000.
00:05:22.720 While Americans are still suffering the consequences of the four years of economic disaster of the Biden administration,
00:05:29.120 the White House press secretary said Donald Trump is making significant progress to fix this,
00:05:34.860 and he will not stop working until he solves it.
00:05:37.840 As the president recently stated, he is never satisfied.
00:05:42.120 In economic news, the September jobs report showed the American economy remains strong,
00:05:47.280 with 119,000 new jobs added, more than double expectations.
00:05:52.840 These gains came after the summer passage of President Trump's historic tax cuts
00:05:58.400 and multiple big trade deals with countries around the world.
00:06:02.720 In particular, construction jobs surged by 19,000 in September,
00:06:07.620 the largest monthly gain in a year.
00:06:10.440 Nearly all of this solid monthly job growth came from the private sector
00:06:14.300 and went to Americans rather than foreign-born workers,
00:06:18.440 the opposite of what we saw under the previous administration.
00:06:21.560 Inflation also remains under control,
00:06:24.700 and wages are up by 3.8% over the year for American workers
00:06:28.780 because of President Trump's pro-growth policies.
00:06:33.020 In fact, real wages are on pace to increase roughly $1,200
00:06:36.940 for the average worker this year under President Trump.
00:06:41.060 This is a complete reversal of the failed Biden era,
00:06:44.420 when we saw inflation skyrocket to 9%,
00:06:47.220 causing private sector workers to see their wages decline
00:06:50.660 by approximately $3,000.
00:06:53.420 We know that Americans are still hurting from the four-decade high inflation
00:06:57.920 caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:07:00.380 But President Trump is making significant progress to fix this,
00:07:04.400 and he will not stop working until he solves it.
00:07:08.220 As the president recently stated, he is never satisfied.
00:07:11.760 The White House press secretary wasn't the only one talking about the positives in the economy.
00:07:17.140 Vice President J.D. Vance also pointing to the economic realities of,
00:07:22.460 yes, things are bad in some categories because of what happened over the last four years.
00:07:27.620 But the Biden administration didn't ruin America,
00:07:30.940 and Donald Trump is fixing it as fast as he possibly can.
00:07:34.340 Here's what the vice president had to say in a Breitbart News event on Thursday.
00:07:39.100 Vice President, the big news this morning is new jobs numbers blew away expectations.
00:07:43.820 Huge.
00:07:44.220 From the September numbers, so these were delayed because of the government shutdown,
00:07:47.620 more than double, 119,000 new jobs.
00:07:50.300 And then also there's some interesting stuff in the wages numbers there as well
00:07:54.520 that shows wages on the rise.
00:07:56.000 Your thoughts on the jobs numbers?
00:07:57.100 Okay, so a huge jobs report, and I assume the market is going crazy right now,
00:08:01.320 probably just opened, because what this shows is that the Trump economic policies are actually working.
00:08:06.700 And you've got 119,000 new jobs.
00:08:08.820 Economists thought that we would have about 50,000 new jobs,
00:08:11.340 but that's actually just the headline number.
00:08:13.420 If you look below the surface, I think the numbers are actually better.
00:08:16.180 So number one, wages continue to way outpace inflation.
00:08:20.260 If you go back to the three years of the Biden administration,
00:08:22.700 the average American worker actually lost about $3,000 of take-home pay.
00:08:27.580 In the first 10 months of the Trump economy,
00:08:29.640 we've increased take-home pay by about $1,200 adjusting for inflation.
00:08:33.800 So that's a huge, huge thing, and this jobs report confirms that.
00:08:37.180 So if you go back to the lie being told by the media that things are terrible,
00:08:41.200 they weren't freaking out when workers lost about $3,000 of take-home pay
00:08:46.740 under the Biden administration.
00:08:48.240 In the first 10 months of the Trump economy,
00:08:52.180 you've got wage increases, a take-home pay of about $1,200.
00:08:57.980 That is a massive $4,200 swing.
00:09:03.720 Now, he also highlighted the private sector is driving this economy growth,
00:09:08.420 and that jobs are going to native-born citizens rather than foreign workers.
00:09:14.100 It's a drastic change from the reality under the Biden administration.
00:09:17.480 And what happened under the Biden administration is to the extent
00:09:21.360 that there was any job growth at all.
00:09:24.700 If you look at the data, J.D. Vance said,
00:09:27.360 almost all of the net job creation in the United States under the Biden administration
00:09:31.840 went to foreign-born workers.
00:09:35.320 Now, of course, some of those people are illegal immigrants in the United States of America,
00:09:39.060 he continued.
00:09:39.980 But that meant a lot of the job creation was actually going to illegal aliens 0.86
00:09:43.640 who shouldn't have been in our country. 0.95
00:09:45.800 Senator Bernie Marino, Republican from Ohio,
00:09:49.220 also pointed out the fact that the influx of foreign workers imported by the Biden administration
00:09:54.460 really hurt American workers.
00:09:57.540 And Americans will remember the damage that was inflicted upon the country
00:10:01.100 under the Biden administration.
00:10:03.340 And it cannot be undone what they did to this country in a matter of months,
00:10:07.240 surging this country with up to 20 million illegal immigrants.
00:10:09.940 He also urged Republicans to respond with urgency,
00:10:14.520 saying these realities coincide with the Trump administration celebrating the strides made
00:10:20.320 in the affordability crisis since Donald Trump took office in January.
00:10:25.120 That includes falling gas prices, which reached record highs under Joe Biden,
00:10:31.340 as well as dipping mortgage rates, falling inflation, and boosts in take-home pay.
00:10:37.760 Those victories do not even include what the Trump administration has achieved through trade deals
00:10:44.100 and historic investments secured by the president,
00:10:47.040 all of which the president has been talking about as steps in the right direction.
00:10:52.680 What the media should be calling this is the Trump effect.
00:10:56.640 Since President Donald Trump returned to office,
00:10:59.420 it's very clear that his America First economic policies
00:11:03.160 have sparked trillions of dollars in new investments in U.S. manufacturing,
00:11:08.280 technology, and infrastructure.
00:11:11.620 Total U.S. and foreign investment is now at $9 trillion.
00:11:15.520 Where's the money coming from?
00:11:17.460 The UAE putting in foreign investments of $1.4 trillion
00:11:21.360 into manufacturing and industry, technology, aerospace as well.
00:11:26.800 Qatar putting $1.2 trillion into America. 0.90
00:11:30.180 Again, in manufacturing and industry sector,
00:11:32.840 with technology and manufacturing being the main point.
00:11:36.080 Japan, $1 trillion into auto plants and U.S. steel.
00:11:40.560 Apple, $600 billion into technology and manufacturing as well.
00:11:45.740 EU firms putting in general investment of $600 billion.
00:11:49.980 Saudi Arabia putting in $600 billion and now saying it's going to go to $1 trillion.
00:11:56.280 Again, in technology and manufacturing.
00:11:59.000 SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle, $500 billion all AI infrastructure projects.
00:12:07.220 NVIDIA, $1.5 trillion into AI infrastructure and supercomputers.
00:12:12.720 India, investing $1.5 billion in mutual trade expansion.
00:12:17.040 South Korea, $450 billion U.S. energy products.
00:12:22.220 Micron, $200 billion semiconductor manufacturing and research and development.
00:12:27.100 IBM, $150 billion of growth and manufacturing operations in the U.S.
00:12:33.780 Pfizer, $70 billion into research, development, and capital projects.
00:12:40.020 And Google, $68 billion for AI infrastructure.
00:12:43.960 Electrician grants.
00:12:45.840 Hydropower facilities, just to name a few.
00:12:48.840 There are countless investments.
00:12:51.260 I could go on and on with Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amazon, Hyundai, Eli Lilly.
00:12:59.940 The list is long.
00:13:01.960 But what did the president do here?
00:13:03.680 He made it clear.
00:13:05.020 If you want to do business in America, you need to invest in America. 0.99
00:13:09.620 You can't just export or import.
00:13:11.760 You must be a real player in this country.
00:13:15.140 And that is exactly why the president has made it possible, through his leadership,
00:13:19.720 for the U.S. to see a surge of private and foreign investments that are fueling job growth,
00:13:25.280 innovation, and opportunity across every corner of the country.
00:13:30.380 So yet again, the president making good on a promise,
00:13:33.540 even though the media is trying to tell you that everything's terrible in America.
00:13:37.820 And the reality is, we're moving in the right direction.
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