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The race to rescue a downed American aviator continues. I'm Jack Callahan, Fox News. The weapons systems officer aboard an F-15 fighter jet knocked from the skies over Iran is still missing. Fox's Jonathan Hunt is in Tel Aviv with the latest.
It is literally a race between U.S. search teams and the Iranian military. They are also fighting. searching for that crew member. Obviously, Iran wants the propaganda victory of finding that person and parading him on TV. They were very quick to show pictures of the wreckage of the F-15, pictures of the ejector seat that was found with remnants of the parachute lying nearby. That F-15E was shot down in southwestern Iran. It's a remote
area very challenging for any rescue operation but the u.s bought the full brunt of its forces to that rescue operation very very quickly two helicopters involved in that rescue operation were hit by iranian forces some crew members aboard the choppers were injured but the helicopters landed safely an a-10 warthog aircraft also crashed near the strait of hormuz that pilot was rescued Fox's Peter Doocy with reaction from the White House.
After the F-15E shootdown became public, the president's first comment on Truth Social was, keep the oil, anyone? He also posted earlier today, our military, the greatest and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran. Bridges, next. Then electric power plants. New regime leadership knows what has to be done and has to be done fast. The president confirmed this crash won't change his plans for negotiations with Iran, telling NBC, no, not at all. No, it's war. We're in war. That suggests the timeline for ending epic fury laid out Wednesday night holds.
America is listening to Fox News. President Trump proposing a big spending increase for the U.S. military and cuts to domestic spending in his annual budget proposal. Fox's Jared Halprin reports from the White House.
The White House is asking Congress to approve $1.5 trillion in defense spending for the upcoming fiscal year, the largest total in history for the Pentagon. Part of the spending increase would be offset with cuts to health, housing, and education agencies. The administration says those can be done by eliminating woke, wasteful, and weaponized programs. The White House Budget Office also projects higher revenues next year. Still, the budget proposal is more symbolic than anything else, serving as a priority list for lawmakers who ultimately must approve federal spending. at the White House.
Jared Halpern, Fox News. When you look inside the numbers, there's some positive things that are in there, like when you look at average hourly wages. Wages increased 3.5 percent over the past 12 months. This outpaces inflation, and that means that as prices rise, American wages rise faster, which is not something that happened under the last administration. We also saw a turnaround here. Since President Trump took office, manufacturing jobs are down 91,000 positions. But in the month of March, manufacturing added 15,000 jobs. The labor secretary says this is not by accident.
With the nearly 178,000 jobs added in the month of March, the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.3%. President Trump directs the Department of Homeland Security to pay all of its employees amid the record-long shutdown of DHS that's lasted nearly 50 days. President repeatedly blaming the partial government shutdown on Democrats who are demanding significant changes to immigration enforcement tactics before lending their support to legislation to fully fund the DHS. I'm Jack Kelley. This is Fox News.
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