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On August 9, 2026, White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett appeared on State of the Union with Jake Tapper. Following is an excerpt of their conversation taken from the transcript : TAPPER: There have been job losses for six out of the 18 full months of President Trump's second term. That's a third of them. And the Trump administration has only added 548,000 net jobs so far, which is considered very slow growth. It's growth, but very slow. Two million jobs were created in the last 18 months of Biden's presidency. Are you really arguing that your numbers are better than that? HASSETT: Well, I disagree with your number. We will have to follow up on e-mail, but I just looked at the latest number. It was that job creation under President Trump since January 20 is about 880,000 jobs. But we won't argue about 800 or 500 factually on a show right now. But the fact is that the thing that really jumps out at us is that those are really good jobs. They're manufac...