U.S. JOBS MARKET is SOARING under PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

U.S. JOBS MARKET is SOARING under PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

The Trump administration has recorded some impressive jobs numbers over the past year, consistently beating expectations. But perhaps the most remarkable part about the job market under Trump is that it has remained strong in spite of significant cuts to the federal workforce. The most recent data shows that the economy added 172,000 new private sector jobs in January, blowing past “expert” predictions of 70,000. Overall, about 615,000 private-sector jobs have been added since Trump took office, while the unemployment rate has dropped to 4.3 percent. At the same time – fulfilling a key campaign promise to cut government bloat – the federal workforce has been hemorrhaging employees, with 42,000 cuts last month alone. Federal employment is now at its lowest level since 1966, with more than 270,000 federal positions cut since January 2025. As Trump relayed in his State of the Union Address last week, 100 percent of the net job creation during his second term has occurred in the private sector. That dramatic growth contrasts sharply with the Biden years, when a significant portion of the jobs numbers that Democrats touted were public-sector jobs funded by taxpayers. During the Biden years, government employment reached 23.1 million workers — a “record high,” according to economist Stephen Moore — with roughly half of all new hires concentrated in government or healthcare, a sector that is heavily subsidized by the government. Economist E.J. Antoni likewise observed that “two-thirds of all jobs added in Biden’s last year were directly or indirectly funded by taxpayer dollars, while manufacturing [jobs] fell almost 100,000 – completely unsustainable.” Subsequent revisions have made the picture even less flattering for the Biden administration. According to the White House release, job growth during Biden’s final two years was overstated by 1.9 million positions.