{"id":1055966,"date":"2025-09-10T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055966"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:58:36","slug":"fact-check-trumps-job-numbers-are-a-disaster-despite-his-attempts-to-distract-and-deceive-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-trumps-job-numbers-are-a-disaster-despite-his-attempts-to-distract-and-deceive-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Trump\u2019s Job Numbers Are a Disaster Despite His Attempts to Distract and Deceive Americans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday released a preliminary benchmark estimate of revisions to the jobs numbers from March 2024 through March 2025. Panicking, Donald Trump\u2019s White House is using the report to distract from their disastrous jobs numbers, which show that Trump\u2019s economy is in the gutter as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/05\/economy\/us-jobs-report-august-final\">jobs disappear<\/a> and unemployment hits a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/us-unemployment-rate-near-4-year-high-labor-market-hits-stall-speed-2025-09-05\/\">four-year high<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another new report shows that the perceived probability of finding a new job is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/us-consumers-getting-more-worried-about-job-market-new-york-fed-says-2025-09-08\/\">lowest it\u2019s been<\/a> in over 12 years. And yesterday, in reaction to the weakening job market, the CEO of America&#8217;s biggest bank warned that the US economy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/09\/jpmorgan-jamie-dimon-economy.html\">slowing down<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump can point fingers all he wants, but the reality is his jobs market is a disaster: American businesses have announced nearly a million job cuts this year, unemployment is the highest in years, and there are more unemployed workers than there are job openings. Trump told us his unhinged tariffs would cause Americans &#8216;short-term\u2019 pain in exchange for a manufacturing boom \u2014 but actually, manufacturing jobs have disappeared, and prices continue to skyrocket. Trump and his lackeys keep trying to distract and deceive, but there\u2019s no getting around the fact that Americans are in real economic pain under his watch.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s be clear: The revision includes jobs numbers under Trump, not just President Biden. Even with this downward revision \u2014 <strong>which is not unusual for a preliminary benchmark estimate<\/strong> \u2014 Biden still created over 500,000 manufacturing jobs compared to the 33,000 manufacturing jobs that Trump has lost \u2014 despite the fact that he claims his unhinged tariffs will spark a manufacturing boom. Under Trump\u2019s failed economy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/us-manufacturing-contracts-sixth-straight-month-amid-tariff-drag-2025-09-02\/\">manufacturing has contracted<\/a> month after month, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/weak-commercial-aircraft-bookings-weigh-us-factory-orders-july-2025-09-03\/\">factory orders<\/a> are down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has been haunted by bad news after bad news about his catastrophic jobs market:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For the first time in years, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/byHeatherLong\/status\/1963243056708088048\">more unemployed people<\/a> than job openings.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The August jobs report showed that only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/05\/jobs-report-august-2025.html\">22,000 jobs<\/a> were added in August \u2014 well below expectations \u2014 and June was the first month of negative job growth since 2020.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The unemployment rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\/live-news\/us-jobs-report-august-2025\">ticked up<\/a> to the highest it\u2019s been since October 2021, and nearly 900,000 jobs have been cut so far in 2025, up 66% from this point last year.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August saw the most job cuts in any August since 2020 \u2014 and before that, not since the Great Recession.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The terrible jobs numbers led Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/198734\/trump-cook-books-fire-commissioner-jobs-report\">fire the previous jobs commissioner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/trump-plans-nominate-ej-antoni-bureau-labor-statistics-commissioner-rcna224438\">install his own lackey<\/a> to try to cook the books \u2014 but no amount of gimmicks can change the fact that Americans are struggling with high unemployment and high prices under Trump\u2019s failed economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday released a preliminary benchmark estimate of revisions to the jobs numbers from March 2024 through March 2025. 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