Winning: Check the Latest Jobs Numbers, the DOW, and Other Good News

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Democrats have been trying to attack President Donald Trump over the economy. 

The problem with this tactic is that they keep getting refuted by the facts. 

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Another big fact knocked out their narrative on Friday: the latest jobs numbers. 

Employers across the U.S. added 177,000 jobs to non-farm payrolls in April. 

That's a "better than expected" number; they were thinking it was going to be around 133,000. 

Unemployment remained the same at 4.2 percent. 

Economist Stephen Moore pointed to the household survey, which showed an even larger gain, with 436,000 more Americans reporting employment in April. Moore called it an "amazing report," explaining that the labor force participation rate also increased. 

He pointed out how the media had been melting down about the market about two weeks ago, with concerns over tariffs. 

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Now, the market was up again, yet you don't see that headline. 

Fox's Charles Payne observed that the jobs where you might think there could be a hit with tariffs — transportation and warehousing — were up. 

He thought the effects of Trump bringing jobs back could have positively affected the numbers.

This seems to show that the economy is strong despite tariff concerns. That's even before the Ukraine mineral deal or any of the trade deals being worked out, as Fox's Maria Bartiromo said. Those will be next. 

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China now sounds amenable to working things out as its economy faces upheaval, with workers in the street protesting. They have many workers who have been laid off or who have not been paid because orders from China have been cut back, and that's affecting their companies. 

China is already quietly exempting some U.S. imports from tariffs. Bartiromo said that news was contributing to the rally in the market. 


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We'll have to see how the deals go. But it sounds like China, the biggest question, is already going to be anxious to make a deal so their economy doesn't implode and Xi Jinping holds onto power. 

Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.  

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