There have been a million jobs created under the Trump administration, and that’s why wage growth is strong, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a policy event with Breitbart News on the state of the economy.
\n\nBessent spoke about the state of the American economy under the leadership of the Trump administration and described the underlying fundamentals as “fantastic and accelerating.”
\n\n“There was a thought that kind of the equilibrium, the balancing jobs number would be between zero and 40,000 because we have done the unthinkable and control the border and have had deportations, and now we’re averaging 80,000, so we’re averaging 2x, and then we have this blowout number,” Bessent said, noting that these are “private sector jobs.
\n\n“So there have been a million of these jobs created, and that’s why the wage growth is good. And I’m not surprised,” the secretary said, describing the best part of his job, which is “watching policy become people.”
\n\n“I tell people the best part of my job is not President Trump calling me in the middle of the night. Scott, did I wake you up? No, sir. I’m always awake at 1:52 on a Tuesday. For me, the best part of…
Original source: https://breitbart.com/
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