The December job numbers are in and President Trump scored another victory. The number of jobs added to the economy nearly doubled estimates from experts.

According to The Daily Caller:

The U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs in the month of December and the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.9 percent, the Department of Labor (DOL) reported Friday morning.

The U.S. economy added 312,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in the month of December. The number blew past economists’ expectations — who forecasted only 182,000 jobs would be added in the final month of 2018. The Department of Labor jobs report caps what has been a strong year for the American economy.

A large portion of the growth occurred in health care, construction, food services, retail trade and manufacturing. The increase in job numbers exceeds that of the prior month, which saw 250,000 new jobs added to the economy.

The December DOL report closes out what has been a strong year for the U.S. economy. For the first 11 months of 2018, the U.S. economy added an average of 206,000 jobs a month.

Unemployment did increase but the new numbers showed promising signs that the economy is not slowing down.