Fox News’ Shannon Bream confronted Vice President-elect JD Vance with President Joe Biden‘s “good” recent job numbers in an interview that aired Sunday morning, but Vance doubled down on his view that Biden left him and President-elect Donald Trump a “dumpster fire” of an economy.
Newsweek reached out to the Trump-Vance transition team and the White House via email for comment on Sunday.
Why It Matters
Trump and Vance have vehemently criticized Biden’s economic policies, with Trump being widely seen to have won the November 2024 election against Vice President Kamala Harris largely because of economic concerns from voters.
The president-elect promised to end inflation and “make America affordable again,” on his campaign platform called Agenda 47 at a time when Americans were feeling the effects of high inflation, which hit both the United States and countries around the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.
What To Know
Bream mentioned some good economic news during her interview with Vance on Fox News Sunday.
U.S. employers defied expectations by adding 256,000 jobs in December 2024 from 212,000 in November 2024, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released Friday. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate slightly decreased to 4.1 percent in December 2024 from 4.2 percent in November 2024.
“The December numbers were good. What kind of credit do you give him?” Bream asked Vance about Biden.
The vice president-elect said that he wished Biden “all the best, but the fact…
