The GOP said enhanced unemployment benefits were stopping folks from taking jobs. The US saw sharp payroll growth last month anyway.

A help wanted sign is posted at a taco stand in Solana Beach, California, U.S., July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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Republicans in 25 states are cutting enhanced unemployment benefits early under the argument that the additional measures discourage people from re-entering the workforce.

But the May jobs report released on Friday, which saw 559,000 payrolls added — a sharp increase from April — and a bigger-than-expected drop in the unemployment rate, suggests the labor-market recovery is accelerating just fine on its own.

After all, none of the GOP-backed enhanced-UI cuts have even gone into effect yet.

Calls from the GOP to cut enhanced UI grew louder after April’s jobs report, which saw a shocking details ⇒

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