Biden glosses over disappointing jobs figures, calls for even more spending

President Joe Biden tried to dress up a disappointing April jobs report, saying it shows that the pandemic-slowed economy has a "long way to go" and needs another jolt from his proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan — and then even more federal spending.

"We knew this wouldn't be a sprint, and, America, quite frankly, we're moving more rapidly than I thought," Biden said, speaking from the White House's East Room. "This report reinforces the real truth. For years, working people and middle-class people, people who built this country, had been left out in the cold, struggling just to keep their heads above water."