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 MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Good afternoon. Okay, I have a update for all of you on some of the President’s outreach and engagement as it relates to Build Back Better and his legislative agenda.   He spent the weekend continuing his deep engagement on behalf of his economic growth agenda for the middle class, speaking with members who represent the full spectrum of views of Hill Democrats about the pathway forward on both his human infrastructure and physical infrastructure plans.   He spoke, as I think some of you reported, this morning with Representative Jayapal at the White House, and will have a number of additional conversations by phone with members of both chambers and — who also run the gamut in terms of their views — as we proceed through the course of the afternoon.   Tomorrow, he will host two different meetings with House members here at the White House: one with moderates and one with progressive members.   We’re encouraged at the accele- — by the...

MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  All right.  Hello.  Hello.  Okay, just a couple of items for you at the top.    Today we learned that last week’s initial unemployment claims fell to another pre-pandemic low, down below 300,000 for the first time in almost 20 months.  The four-week average similarly fell to a new low, down nearly 60 percent from when President Biden took office.   This is a testament to the progress we’ve made on the economy, thanks to President Biden’s success in getting Americans vaccinated and getting economic relief to the middle class.   The week before the President took office — just to give you a few fr- — points of reference — jobless claims were at nearly 900,000; now they’re down to 293,000.  We’ve created nearly 5 million jobs in eight months.  That’s 600,000 new jobs every month, on average — 10 times the rate we inherited.  Growth is up.  Wages are up.  And our unemployment rate is do...