The new jobs report dropped on Tuesday, and the left pounced right on cue. They rushed to declare the numbers “disappointing” and “weak,” because that is the script whenever President Trump’s economy refuses to collapse on command. The problem for them is that the data tells a very different story. The Trump economy is doing exactly what conservatives have wanted for years: shrinking the federal bureaucracy, growing private sector jobs, rewarding work, and putting native-born Americans first.
Let’s start with the most critical point: Since Trump returned to office, 100% of job growth has come from the private sector and from native-born Americans.
Not some of it. All of it. That alone explains why the left is in meltdown, pushing its bogus doom-and-gloom narrative, hoping it will stick. Its entire economic project for our country depends on an ever-expanding federal workforce, cheap foreign labor, and an economy driven by government spending. Trump flipped that model on its head and did it quickly.
Look at the federal government itself. Since Trump took office, federal employment has dropped by 271,000 jobs. That is the largest rollback of the federal bureaucracy in over a decade. Since September alone, the feds shed 168,000 jobs while the private sector picked up 121,000. That is exactly what draining the swamp looks like in real numbers. Fewer bureaucrats, more real jobs.
This is what America voted for.
Since August, the private sector has added 225,000 jobs. Since Trump took office, the private sector has created 687,000 new jobs. The media’s spin depends on cherry-picking single-month numbers, stripping out context, and pretending that the Schumer Shutdown reflects the underlying economy. It does not. The fundamentals are solid.
And make no mistake about it, the Schumer Shutdown left a mark. The private sector likely lost as many as 62,000 jobs in October because Democrats decided their best strategy was to grind government funding to a halt and hope the fallout hurt Trump. Instead, it hit GDP and slowed hiring, and they did not care, as long as they thought it was a political winner for their party.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid it out clearly: “They were unable to stop President Trump. They tried to. They tried to stop him in the courts. They tried to stop him in the media. Then they went to the extreme, where they had the longest government shutdown in history, which was a hit to GDP and slowed things down. We're still gonna finish the year probably three and a half percent GDP growth, which is incredible… with a shrinking budget deficit.”
Bessent pointed out that “we have very good momentum coming into next year. The economy is broadening out. You can see it. Other sectors of the stock market, away from big tech, are doing very well.”
That last part matters. Over the past three months, the country added 52,000 construction jobs. That is bricks, steel, and concrete. That is homes, factories, and real physical investment.
Between January and November 2025, the labor market showed substantial gains for native-born Americans while foreign-born employment declined. Specifically, 2.7 million native-born Americans gained jobs, and 2.75 million entered the labor force, while 972,000 foreign-born workers lost employment and 1.1 million left the labor force. This marks a reversal of the Biden-era trend, when foreign labor often displaced American workers and suppressed wage growth.
On top of that, Americans’ real wages are on track to rise by 4.2% in the first full year of the Trump Administration. That outpaces inflation and wipes away the salary erosion people suffered under Biden. Workers actually feel the difference when their paychecks go farther, rather than shrinking every time they walk into a grocery store.
The media is making a stink about a slight rise in unemployment, but the increase reflects more Americans rejoining the labor force, not job losses. Labor participation is rising as people return to work under a growing economy. Critics calling the numbers “bad” are pushing rhetoric, not facts.
Trump’s economy is delivering a smaller federal workforce, a stronger private sector, higher real wages, and job growth focused on native-born Americans, all of which signal a genuine recovery.
