FOX 7 Discussion: U.S. economy adds 4.8 million jobs

Abhi Rahman with the Texas Democratic Party and Travis County GOP chairman Matt Mackowiak join Rebecca Thomas on FOX 7 Austin to talk about the June jobs report.

AUSTIN, Texas - President Donald Trump says the country is on the upswing following the release of a positive June jobs report. Almost 5 million Americans went back to work last month.

"Today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back. It's coming back extremely strong," he said. "We have some areas where we're putting out the flames of the fires and that's working out well. We're working very closely with governors and I think it's working out very well. I think you'll see that shortly"

Abhi Rahman with the Texas Democratic Party and Travis County GOP chairman Matt Mackowiak join Rebecca Thomas to talk about this in greater detail.