Programming is supported by prescription landscape, serving commercial clients across the Twin Cities since 1980, with grounds care, hardscaping, interior scoping, and tree care.

Learn more at rxlandscape.com.

The job market improved in January, but was the awful weather a factor?

I'm David Brancashio in Los Angeles. There's news this hour that

130,000 more people were on America's payrolls last month. That's more than twice what was

expected. Also, the separate survey of households finds the unemployment rate ticking down,

a sliver, 4.3% now. There was a surge in hiring in health care fields, which needs to be fully explained.

Experts also say terrible weather last month may have distorted this sum. And the previous

year's data was revised downward by nearly 900,000 jobs that never were. Julia Coronado is

founder and president of macro policy perspectives. It was almost entirely in the private sector.

We got some downward revisions to manufacturing.

We also got substantial downward revisions to trade transportation and utilities.

So this is a sector that got hit, of course, by the tariffs and the trade wars and, in fact, led to less job creation

than previously estimated. In a rebuke to President Trump's unilateral authority to impose tariffs, there could soon be votes in the House of Representatives that could repeal some of those import taxes, among them as a bill to get rid of the president's

higher import taxes on Canada.

Last night, the House rejected legislation that would have delayed any votes on tariffs,

with several Republicans voting with Democrats, including Congressman Don Bacon of Nebraska.

In a post on X, he wrote, the Constitution gives Congress authority over tariffs and, quote,

it's time for Congress to reclaim that responsibility.

Democrats have teed up a number of tariff votes, including on a resolution that would repeal

the emergency president Trump declared for the import taxes on Canada.

But Trump would veto any measures overturning his tariffs, and at this point,

...