RNC Statement on October Jobs Report

WASHINGTON – Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on the October jobs report.

“After months of failed policies and bad jobs reports, the one person who does not deserve credit for creating jobs is Joe Biden. After Biden and Democrats spent months paying Americans to stay home, Republican states led the way in lowering the unemployment rate and getting Americans back to work. To add to his list of failures, Biden announced an unconstitutional mandate threatening the jobs of millions of workers, Americans are paying more for everything from gas to groceries, and Democrats are pushing through trillions in spending and a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. Voters soundly rejected Biden’s failed economic agenda at the ballot box this week and will do so again in 2022.” 

Key Takeaways: 

• Today’s jobs report provides little consolation to the more than 4 million Americans who lost their job during the pandemic and have yet to get it back.
• Just yesterday, Biden announced a vaccine mandate that threatens the jobs of millions of workers and promises to make the supply chain crisis even worse.
  • One poll found that 7 in 10 unvaccinated workers would likely quit their jobs rather than adhere to the vaccine requirement.
• U.S. economic growth is falling short of expectations under Biden, having suffered a "sharp deceleration” in the third quarter.
• The unemployment rate didn’t drop for all Americans – in fact, the unemployment rates for Black and Asian Americans didn’t budge.
• The unemployment rates for women and Black men actually increased in October.