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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

A solid jobs report pushes the unemployment rate to its lowest in 53 years. As the Republican

House of Representatives removes Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign

Affairs Committee on a party line vote. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street

Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues editorial board member, Maneu Uquibra-Rua

and columnist Kim Strassel. Welcome and happy Friday to you both. The Labor Department

said Friday that in January, the U.S. economy added a net 517,000 jobs, which was a figure

well above expectations, big gains in leisure and hospitality, and also state government

employment with some smaller gains in construction, mining and logging, and services of all kinds.

And the result of this is a 3.4% unemployment rate last month. The lowest level since May

of 1969. And Maneu, I'm wondering what is your read of this economy as we sit here now

that still looks at least to me somewhat strange?

Yeah, that's right. I think that the job numbers that were released this week will be

befuddling to a lot of people on Wall Street economists and others who have been betting

on recession in the near term. You should put a pin in worries about a recession, which

is to say nobody thinks that we're out of the woods yet. A lot of people are still

betting that we're going to have one in the first half of this year and certainly by year

end. That is what the economists project and that also is what businesses are showing

in their long term projections. Employers who are adding jobs now in the short term to

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