{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8747", "Beyer On Disastrous Jobs Report: \u201cThis Is Not An A++++ Economy\u201d", "2025-12-16", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Donald S. Beyer, Jr.", "B001292", "beyer.house.gov", "beyer", "https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its November jobs report, which found that the unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, the highest level since the pandemic, while the economy lost jobs on balance over the months of October (-108,000 jobs) and November (+64,000 jobs). In the seven months since President Trump\u2019s tariffs took effect, the U.S. economy has averaged just 17,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 168,000 the year before Trump took office.\n\nRep. Don Beyer, Senior House Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, said:\n\n\u201cThis disastrous jobs report makes it clear that this is not an \u2018A++++ economy\u2019 as President Trump claimed, it\u2019s an economy at risk of sliding into recession.\n\n\u201cTrump\u2019s tariffs are most to blame for the hiring slump. In the year before Trump took office, the U.S. economy averaged 168,000 jobs added per month. In the seven months since his tariffs went into place, that number has fallen to just 17,000. Our economy lost jobs in three of those months, after not seeing a single negative monthly job number since Trump\u2019s first term. The national unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, the highest number since the Delta wave of the pandemic hit the U.S. in August of 2021.\n\n\u201cEven Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff now admits Trump\u2019s tariffs were \u2018more painful than [she] expected.\u2019 Tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs, but manufacturing job numbers are plummeting. The Black unemployment rate is now over 8 percent, and wage growth is falling as inflation rises. Americans are paying more for groceries, electricity, housing, and health care, as Republicans prepare to pass even more legislation that will drive costs higher. Meanwhile they continue to surrender their power to stop Trump\u2019s tariffs \u2013 the one thing they could do that would most help our flagging economy.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8747"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.441180007532239, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}