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US President Donald Trump hailed data released Thursday showing huge employment gains in June, but he continued to downplay surging Covid-19 cases that could reverse the tentative recovery.
His cheering drew a sharp rebuke from former vice president Joe Biden, who is challenging Trump in the November election and said there is little to celebrate with the economy still in a dire state.
The quarrel came as the Labor Department reported employers brought 4.8 million people back to work last month, close to half in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality sector.
The hiring dropped the jobless rate by two points to 11.1 per cent -- a figure nonetheless higher than any seen in decades and well above the peak of the global financial crisis.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump, who needs a strong economy to help his re-election bid, went through the report line-by-line, saying some of the job gains were records.
"Today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back," Trump said.
"The crisis is being handled," he continued. "This not just luck, what is happening. This is a lot of talent."
He also cheered the soaring stock market, but left without taking questions from reporters on the spike in cases of coronavirus, nor the scandal over reports that US intelligence believes a Russian unit paid bounties for Taliban-linked militants to kill American troops.
In a live webcast later in the day, Biden pointed to the worsening Covid-19 situation in the United States, which has seen the world's worst outbreak with more than 128,000 deaths and new infections now at 50,000 a day.
"There's no victory to be celebrated when we're still down nearly 15 million jobs and the pandemic is getting worse, not better," Biden said.
"We are still in a deep, deep jobs hole because Donald Trump has so badly bungled the response to the coronavirus, and now has basically given up responding at all," Biden said.
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