Congressman Don Beyer, a Democrat who represents Northern Virginia’s Eighth District in the House of Representatives, has gathered a number of tweets from yesterday and today from Republicans regarding the employment numbers of this morning.

It goes without saying that the contrast is not surprising but illustrates the partisan divide on issues as simple and quantifiable as the economic well-being of the nation.

Leading GOP account hails 3.9% unemployment rate under Donald Trump as a record high, but under current administration the same figure represents their “worst jobs report” and “Biden’s policies have failed and he doesn’t care “.

In 2018, GOP President Ronna McDaniel hailed the 3.9% unemployment rate as the lowest since December 2000 and “great news for our economy and our workforce,” but paraphrased the line of the GOP account today.

Kevin McCarthy called the 2018 issue “historic” but said today’s economy was “stifled”.

House Republicans said their “pro-growth agenda” came in 2018 with an unemployment rate of 3.9% and the economy was “booming.” In 2022, their tweet says this is “just the latest sign that [Biden’s] the economic crisis continues ”.

The United States created far fewer jobs than expected in December as an increase in the number of Covid cases began to spread across the country.

Dow Jones estimated 422,000 for the number of payrolls and 4 percent for the unemployment rate.

A United States Capitol Police officer lodged a complaint against Donald Trump exactly one year after a crowd of his supporters entered the halls of Congress and injured dozens of law enforcement officers

In a case filed in US District Court in Washington DC on January 6, an attorney for Briana Kirkland says she “endured an odyssey” of violence that began between 20 officers on the Senate side of the Capitol and ended “covered with chemical spray”. and blood, “with a traumatic brain injury that would cost her a year of her personal and professional life, and physical and personal injuries that would follow it indefinitely.”

Alyssa Farah, once press secretary to former Vice President Mike Pence, tweeted on Friday that she “got a lot of hatred from the right-wing for thinking 1/6 was a big deal.”

“There is nothing less conservative [than] than trying to overthrow [the] democratic process, ”she wrote.

“If we cannot recognize that we are morally in bad shape as a party, it will be the loss of the GOP.”

Andrew Naughtie describes how Ted Cruz fell into the paradox of the “morally unrelated postmodern logic” of the dominant far right.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited President Joe Biden to a joint session of Congress on March 1 where he will deliver the President’s annual State of the Union address.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

The president and the first lady left Washington, DC en route to Colorado to meet with victims of the wildfires that swept through two suburban towns in late December.

They will then fly to Las Vegas, Nevada, to attend the funeral of Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate leader, on Saturday.

The Republican senator from Texas was toasted on Twitter for what was seen as a “hovering” apology to the Fox News host for his description of the Capitol riot as a “terrorist attack.”

In a particularly uncomfortable moment for the Senator, Mr Carlson said: “You told this lie on purpose and I wonder why you did it.”

Sheila Flynn has the story.

In his remarks on the latest US employment figures, President Biden made a few references to his predecessor.

On the 2020 election (while discussing supply chain issues).

“The Grinch didn’t steal Christmas … Nor any votes.”

“By the way, the stock market – the last measure of everything – it’s about two percent higher than it was when my predecessor was there. It broke record after record after record on my watch everything. by making things fairer for working class people. ”

And for good measure, he even included a “Malarkey” brand when responding to Republican criticism of his economic plans.

The latest US jobs figures are disappointing compared to the Biden administration’s forecast, and the president is scrambling to explain his record on job creation.

Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the January 6 select committee, joined the effort to hold Ted Cruz accountable for his own words in the days following the insurgency: