Trump Policies Keep Economic Boom Going As Job Gains of 304,000 Surpass Expectations The American economy is continuing its historic streak of positive job gains in the new year, according to the latest monthly jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. The economy has added 4.9 million jobs since January 2017 and 5.3 million jobs since President Donald J. Trump was elected in November 2016. January 2019 marks the 16th consecutive month of employment growth of at least 100,000 new jobs. The report also indicates that wages are continuing to rise. Click here to continue reading.

In The Wall Street Journal, Amrith Ramkumar writes that the strong U.S. economy fueled stocks to their best January performance in 30 years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both closed with their biggest monthly gains in more than 3 years, “lifted by renewed confidence that the U.S. economy will keep powering ahead.”

In National Review, Vice President Mike Pence writes about a shocking bill introduced by Democrats in the Virginia legislature that would affirm abortion up to the moment of birth. But Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) went even further in a radio interview about the bill. “The infant would be kept comfortable. [And] the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue,” the Governor said. “There’s another word for this: infanticide,” Vice President Pence writes.

“U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill over 50 million people from a truck that was trying to cross the southern border into the United States, according to an investigation by ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’” Mike Brest reports for The Daily Caller. The incident qualifies as the biggest fentanyl drug bust in history.

“Stocks enjoyed a four-week winning streak last week. It was because investors are realizing that President Trump is finally succeeding in bringing China around on trade and that the underlying U.S. economy is solid,” Gina Loudon writes in the Washington Examiner. “Now China is finally being held accountable, and investors are starting to realize that Trump knows what he’s doing here.”