Hi, this is Benoit in Salt Lake City, and I am so excited after 22 years of belting defying gravity around my house to finally be getting ready to go see the conclusion of the wicked film adaptation.

This podcast was recorded at 12.5 p.m. on Thursday, November 20, 2025.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I certainly will have been changed for good.

All right. Here's the show.

I feel cheated that he didn't sing for us.

I was literally about to say the same thing, Danielle.

I was like that timestamp should have been

singing. Sir, disappointing. Next time. Take notes, okay. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles

Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover the White House. And NPR chief

economics correspondent, Scott Horsley is also here with us. Hi, Scott. I'm always ready to sing.

Prove it. All right. Go. Yeah, let's hear it. But you don't want to hear me sing. Okay.

All right. Next time. Well, you probably guessed it today on the show. We are talking about the economy,

what newly released data tells us and how the White House is trying to give the economy a boost. Scott, the Bureau of

Labor Statistics, released a delayed September jobs report this morning. Tell us what you saw there.

Yeah, we had to blow the dust off the cover of this report because it's been sitting around the

government offices for almost seven weeks. It was supposed to come out in early October. Now we're, you know, in the latter third of November and it's finally coming out.

But what it showed us, it was a pretty strong headline.

It said that U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in the month of September,

which was more than most forecasters had expected.

However, it also showed that job growth in July and August was

even weaker than the kind of anemic numbers we'd already seen. So it paints kind of a mixed

picture. A mixed picture. How is the Trump administration responding to that picture, Danielle?

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