While the mainstream media keeps searching for bad news, the actual jobs data tells a very different story: President Trump’s economy is firing on all cylinders, and American workers are the ones reaping the rewards.
Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, the numbers are in — and they’re good. Private payrolls are up, unemployment is holding steady, wages are rising, and consumer spending is moving in the right direction. These aren’t talking points. These are facts.
Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling laid it out plainly on Newsmax: the Trump economy has produced 88,000 new private sector jobs per month so far this year, with manufacturing and construction of new manufacturing plants both on the rise. That’s not a blip — that’s a trend. That’s what happens when you have a president who actually puts American workers first instead of shipping their jobs overseas and calling it progress.
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.@Sonderling47: "This jobs report shows the continued strength of @POTUS' economy… so far this year, @POTUS has produced 88,000 new private sector jobs each month… We continue to see this year manufacturing grow, we continue to see construction for manufacturing plants grow." pic.twitter.com/Ji2d6l4bH5
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 2, 2026
He said:
This job report shows the continued strength of President Trump’s economy, 57,000 new jobs, so far this year the president has produced 88,000 new private sector jobs each month. That’s what we look at, and the jobs are continuing to come back in the right places. We continue to see this year, manufacturing grow, we continue to see construction for manufacturing plants grow, these are bringing the jobs back that the president promised, reindustrializing, reshoring our industries, so, from this jobs report we continue to see that, and that’s what we’re so excited about. Bringing back these America, high-skilled jobs, back into our economy that they had left.
And it’s not just the Labor Department saying so. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer pointed out on Fox News that private payroll growth under Trump is running well ahead of what the Biden administration ever managed to produce — with wages climbing and manufacturing expanding. Remember when they told us manufacturing jobs were never coming back? Turns out all it took was a president willing to fight for them:
.@USTradeRep Ambassador Greer: "This is a hugely positive trend. The labor market is accelerating in 2026…. our average increase in private payroll, it's way higher than the Biden administration. Wages are going up, manufacturing is going up—so we're popping." pic.twitter.com/MYOobM8vOV
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 2, 2026
He noted:
This is a hugely positive trend. The labor market is accelerating in 2026. It picked up last year, it’s picking up speed now, our average increase in private payroll is way higher than in the Biden administration. Wages are going up, manufacturing is going up, so, we’re popping.
The broader economic picture backs this up too — real GDP growth came in at 2.1 percent in the first quarter, consumer spending is rising, and markets remain near record highs. This is what a pro-growth, pro-worker, pro-America economic agenda looks like in practice.
The left spent years telling us that reindustrializing America was a fantasy — that the days of building things here were over, that we should just accept decline and learn to live with it. Trump didn’t accept that. And the data is proving him right.
The only question now is whether Republicans will hold the line in the midterms and let these policies continue to work, or whether Democrats will be handed the keys back so they can drive the economy into a ditch all over again. The choice couldn’t be clearer.
