Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Newsmax on Friday that she is confident the Trump administration will close the gap on manufacturing jobs lost during the Biden administration and rebuild factories left abandoned the previous four years.

Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday showed that manufacturing jobs increased for the second month in a row, by 1,000 in March after an increase of 8,000 in February. That ended a two-month tailspin at the end of the Biden administration that saw a total of 20,000 manufacturing jobs lost.

“The president has done a wonderful job on being focused on the manufacturing, jobs, transportation as well, and construction,” Chavez-DeRemer told guest host David Harris Jr. on “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “We saw those jobs come back over the last two months.

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