Lori Chavez-DeRemer

No, sir.

Thank you, Ranking Member Sanders, and I appreciate the conversation.

I support the American worker.

Yeah, I couldn't agree with you.

I think we have to address the fact that this is not a good report in its raw numbers.

But we have to also talk about why this possibly has happened.

This snapshot in time, it was mentioned the weather.

We saw health care numbers go down.

We saw a record strike in California, over 30,000 jobs lost there.

But that has been resolved.

So we're hoping to see those numbers tick back up next month.

But overall, we've gained 60,000 new jobs over the last two months.

So this is important for us to recognize what the message is here, what the noise is, and how focused the Labor Department is in making sure that we can bring back those jobs in construction, manufacturing,

We're seeing the confidence go up.

We've seen the investments that the president has made.

I've said it over and over again.

The president and I talk, we visit on this often.

It's important to him.

We're laser focused to make sure that we have that skilled workforce and it's just gonna take some time.

So we're recognizing what happened this month and we're gonna stay laser focused to bring those jobs numbers