President Donald Trump said Monday that the lackluster July job report was “rigged” and vowed to appoint a new statistician to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
Trump’s criticism of the monthly jobs report came after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fewer-jobs-than-expected-added-in-july-as-unemployment-holds-steady?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Fewer+Jobs+Than+Expected+Added+In+July+As+Unemployment+Holds+Steady">it found</a> that just 73,000 jobs were added to the economy in July, and that previous reports had significantly overcounted job growth. In response, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fires-biden-appointed-labor-statistics-boss-after-major-revisions-to-jobs-reports">fired</a> Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday, saying that she had manipulated the numbers for political purposes. 
“Last weeks Job’s Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged. That’s why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114970631477859993">posted</a> on Truth Social on Monday morning. “Those big adjustments were made to cover up, and level out, the FAKE political numbers that were CONCOCTED in order to make a great Republican Success look less stellar!!! I will pick an exceptional replacement. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Trump told reporters on Sunday that he would name a replacement for McEntarfer sometime in the next three to four days. 
“We had no confidence. The numbers were ridiculous,” he said. 
In addition to July job growth coming in lower than what had been projected by economists, the reports from May and June were revised down by 258,000 jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics described these revisions as “larger than normal.”
On Sunday, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-econ-director-cites-revisions-as-hard-evidence-to-fire-labor-statistics-chief?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Econ+Director+Cites+‘Revisions’+As+‘Hard+Evidence’+To+Fire+Labor+Statistics+Chief">pointed</a> to the massive revisions made to the jobs report within the last year as justification for the firing. He specifically referred to the 818,000 downward jobs revision that came in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/us-added-818000-fewer-jobs-thought-adding-concerns-economy-rcna167555">August</a> 2024, covering the time from March 2023 to March 2024.
“Well, I mean, the revisions are hard evidence,” Hassett replied. “For example, there was an 818,000 revision making the Joe Biden job record a lot worse that came out after he withdrew from the presidential campaign. There have been a bunch of patterns that could make people wonder. And I think the most important thing for people to know is that it’s the president’s highest priority that the data be trusted and that people get to the bottom of why these revisions are so unreliable.”

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President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a dismal jobs report was revised down by 90%, alleging the numbers were &#8220;rigged.&#8221; The U.S. positions nuclear submarines in response to threats from a former Russian leader as Trump&#8217;s deadline for peace talks with Putin approaches. The controversy over a Sydney Sweeney ad escalates, highlighting a broader cultural shift away from DEI under the Trump administration. 
It’s Monday, August 4, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Trump Ousts Labor Chief After Dismal Jobs Report</h2>
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Topline: President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after the agency released a dismal jobs report and dramatically revised down its numbers from previous months. 
On Friday, the Labor Department released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fires-biden-appointed-labor-statistics-boss-after-major-revisions-to-jobs-reports">report</a> showing the U.S. economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, falling well short of the 100,000 projection. More alarmingly, the agency announced that its job numbers for May and June had been overestimated by 90%, revising the initial report of 291,000 jobs down to just 33,000. President Trump immediately responded with a statement declaring that &#8220;the jobs were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” He then fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her of releasing similarly inaccurate reports before the 2024 election &#8220;in the hopes of getting &#8216;Kamala&#8217; elected.&#8221; 
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett defended the move, stating, &#8220;What we need is a fresh set of eyes at the BLS. Someone who can clean this thing up.” Democrats and other critics, like former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, called the president’s charge &#8220;preposterous,&#8221; arguing that it would be impossible for the head of the BLS to manipulate the data. 
Despite the sluggish job growth, the White House pointed to positive underlying trends in the labor market. Since President Trump took office, 100% of net job growth has been among American-born workers and has occurred in the private sector. Under the previous administration, 100% of net job growth was among foreign-born workers, while about 25% of all jobs created were in government. 
<h2>U.S. Positions Nuclear Subs After Russian Threats</h2>
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Topline: President Trump has ordered two U.S. nuclear submarines to be repositioned in response to inflammatory nuclear rhetoric from former Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev. 
Medvedev, who often serves as a provocateur for the Kremlin, recently made statements alluding to a last-ditch nuclear weapons response. In a post on Truth Social, President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-dispatches-nuclear-submarines-after-highly-provacative-statements-from-russia">said</a> he ordered the submarines into position as a precaution, in case Medvedev’s &#8220;foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences.” 
While the specific submarines and their locations have not been disclosed, the U.S. Navy possesses 14 Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines. Each one can carry up to 20 Trident ballistic missiles armed with multiple nuclear warheads, capable of striking Moscow from thousands of miles away. The move is being seen as a signal from Trump that he will not tolerate threats from Russia, a harder line than the previous administration’s focus on de-escalation. 
This comes as Trump’s new August 8 deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to enter into peace talks with Ukraine is fast approaching. If Russia misses the deadline, the president has the authority to implement massive new sanctions and increase weapons shipments to Ukraine. 
<h2>‘Great Jeans’ Ad Highlights Anti-DEI Shift</h2>
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Topline: The ongoing controversy over an American Eagle ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney has become a cultural flashpoint, highlighting the Trump administration&#8217;s aggressive push to dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. 
Since taking office, President Trump has signed executive orders terminating DEI mandates in the federal government and requiring federal contractors to comply with anti-discrimination laws. The administration has also put universities on notice that they will lose federal grants if they employ DEI in admissions or hiring. 
The American Eagle ad, which features the traditionally beautiful actress and a voiceover with a pun on &#8220;jeans&#8221; and &#8220;genes,&#8221; sparked a media firestorm. An MSNBC column claimed it signaled an &#8220;unbridled cultural shift toward Whiteness,&#8221; while other outlets accused the company of promoting eugenics and even &#8220;Nazi propaganda.&#8221; 
Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the &#8220;unhinged&#8221; reaction, saying it reveals Democrats&#8217; &#8220;hostility to basic American life.&#8221; American Eagle has not apologized for the ad, and its stock has risen about 15% since the campaign launched. In what appears to be a cancellation attempt against the actress, Buzzfeed recently published an article revealing that Sweeney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-melt-down-after-report-that-sydney-sweeney-is-registered-republican">registered as a Republican</a> in 2024.

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President Donald Trump said on Friday that he ordered his team to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after Friday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fewer-jobs-than-expected-added-in-july-as-unemployment-holds-steady">jobs report</a> showed that the U.S. job market underperformed expectations last month and made major negative revisions to previous reports.
Trump accused McEntarfer, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden, of faking jobs numbers &#8220;before the Election to try and boost&#8221; the chances of former Vice President Kamala Harris. The July jobs report showed that growth was slower than expected at 73,000 jobs added, while unemployment slightly ticked up to 4.2%, in line with predictions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also made major revisions to the May and June reports, marking down nonfarm payrolls by nearly 260,000 in the two months combined.
&#8220;This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858">wrote</a> in a post on Truth Social.
&#8220;We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes.&#8221;
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-orders-firing-bls-commissioner-weak-jobs-report-rcna222531">reported</a> that a Trump official confirmed the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner had been fired. McEntarfer has spent the last 20 years of her career working in the federal government, hopping from the Census Bureau to the Treasury Department to the White House&#8217;s Council of Economic Advisers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics&#8217; deputy director is Bill Wiatrowski, who started under former President Barack Obama.
In a follow-up <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114955222046259464">post</a> later on Friday, Trump wrote, &#8220;In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were &#8216;taken away&#8217; on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM.&#8221;
The 818,000 jobs revision from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/us-added-818000-fewer-jobs-thought-adding-concerns-economy-rcna167555">August</a> of last year, three months before the 2024 election, not after the election as the president claimed. That downward revision was for total U.S. job gains over a 12-month period ending in March 2024.
The president tore into McEntarfer for the revision of recent jobs reports, saying, &#8220;Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative.&#8221; He then called for Fed Chair Jerome Powell to &#8220;also be put &#8216;out to pasture,'&#8221; along with McEntarfer.
&#8220;The Economy is BOOMING under &#8216;TRUMP&#8217; despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting &#8216;Kamala&#8217; elected – How did that work out? Jerome &#8216;Too Late&#8217; Powell should also be put &#8216;out to pasture.&#8217; Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;

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Fewer jobs were added to the economy in July than expected as the unemployment rate remained largely unchanged, according to a report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
The monthly jobs <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">report</a> found that 73,000 jobs were added to the American economy in July, lower than the 100,000 that the Dow Jones had projected. The health care and social assistance industries saw job growth while federal government employment continued to decline. 
The industries of mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, and finance all saw marginal changes, the report said. 
“Both the unemployment rate, at 4.2 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.2 million, changed little in July. The unemployment rate has remained in a narrow range of 4.0 percent to 4.2 percent since May 2024,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics found. 
The report also said that average hourly earnings for nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.3% in July. 
Major revisions were made to the job reports from May and June, with the July report noting that job growth had been overcounted by around 258,000. 
“Revisions for May and June were larger than normal,” the report said. “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised down by 125,000, from +144,000 to +19,000, and the change for June was revised  down by 133,000, from +147,000 to +14,000.”
In a statement responding to the jobs report, Republican National Committee Communications Director Zach Parkinson pointed to lower gas prices and the stock market.
“The Trump economy is delivering real results for American workers and families,” Parkinson said. “Prices for gas and groceries are down, inflation has fallen, the economy has added half a million jobs since January, wage growth is at 4%, and the stock market just reached record highs.”
Shortly after the report was released, President Donald Trump again called for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. 
“Too Little, Too Late. Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell is a disaster,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “DROP THE RATE! The good news is that Tariffs are bringing Billions of Dollars into the USA!”
The jobs report comes on the heels of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-economy-keeps-roaring-3-gdp-growth-shatters-expectations">the news</a> showing that real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 3% in the second quarter and amid a flurry of new actions by Trump on tariffs. A wave of new tariffs is set to go into effect on August 7, even as negotiations with Mexico and China, two of America’s biggest trading partners, remain ongoing.

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Vice President JD Vance defended the Trump administration’s immigration policies in a speech Wednesday, predicting that the United States was on the cusp of “net negative immigration.”
Speaking at an artificial intelligence summit hosted by the All In Podcast and the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington, the vice president addressed conservative critics who claim the White House is not doing enough to fight illegal immigration.
Noting that the Trump administration has faced legal and practical struggles while pursuing its goal of <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-deportations-trump-six-months/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1 million</a> deportations this year, Vance nevertheless said that if you consider the “net number” of deportations, the Trump administration has been “wildly successful.”
“In 2025 we will have the first net negative immigration number in about 50 or 60 years in the United States,” Vance said.
He also responded to the argument that more deportations occurred under Biden.
“That’s actually a completely fake statistic. It’s based on the fact that if you come into the country illegally, and then the Biden administration processes you and sends you out, that counts as a deportation.”
Border Patrol didn’t release a single illegal into the United States in May, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/us-news/border-agents-didnt-release-a-single-illegal-migrant-into-the-us-last-month-border-patrol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. By contrast, 62,000 illegal migrants crossed the border in the same month last year.
During his address Vance also criticized companies — calling out Microsoft specifically — for performing mass layoffs while actively applying for H1-B visas.
H1-B visas are <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temporary work permits</a> that allow American companies to employ foreign nonimmigrant skilled workers in “specialty occupations.” There is a cap on how many H1-B visas can be issued per year, currently set at 65,000.
&#8220;You see some big tech companies where they&#8217;ll lay off 9,000 workers, and then they&#8217;ll apply for a bunch of overseas visas. And I sort of wonder; that doesn&#8217;t totally make sense to me,” Vance said, seemingly referencing Microsoft, who announced their latest round of layoffs earlier this month which would affect <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/microsoft-laying-off-about-9000-employees-in-latest-round-of-cuts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9,000</a> employees, or 4% of their workforce.
&#8220;That displacement and that math worries me a bit. And what the president has said, he said very clearly: we want the very best and the brightest to make America their home. We want them to build great companies and so forth.”
“But I don&#8217;t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say, &#8216;We can&#8217;t find workers here in America,&#8217;” Vance added. “That&#8217;s a bulls*** story.&#8221;
Rumours were circulating on X after Microsoft announced its layoffs that it has applied for over 6,000 H1-B visas since the start of the fiscal year in October. Though the rumours are currently unsubstantiated, last year Microsoft applied for and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/microsoft-layoffs-h1b-visa-applications-2094370" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> 9,491 H1-B visas.
This comes as multiple big tech companies collectively committed to investing $90 billion into developing AI infrastructure in Pennsylvania at a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-to-tout-billions-in-investments-to-create-ai-hub-in-pennsylvania-1e9afa89?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summit</a> that Trump attended last week. Trump also signed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/23/trump-ai-action-plan-big-tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three executive orders</a> on Wednesday that will deregulate and encourage investment in the AI industry.
“We created the digital age, and now we are leading the world into the golden age,” Trump said at the signing. “With your help, that golden age will be built by American workers. It will be powered by American energy. It will be run on American technology, improved by American artificial intelligence,” he told tech companies.

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In the first six months of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second term, one major theme has defined Trump&#8217;s economic record thus far: success that surprises the people who are paid to predict it.
It hasn&#8217;t been surprising for the president, who is carrying out his promise to revamp American manufacturing and boost American jobs, mainly by imposing unprecedented tariffs on nearly every country in the world. And it comes as economists who predicted large-scale inflation and market downturn over Trump&#8217;s bold economic agenda keep seeing economic metrics come across their desks showing the opposite.
Earlier this year, Americans were told to brace their wallets for rising inflation and prepare for a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-economists-forecast-stagflation-recession-risk/">recession</a> caused by Trump&#8217;s major tariffs, especially those levied on America&#8217;s biggest trading partners, China, Canada, and Mexico. In May, Goldman Sachs analysts said core goods inflation could hit 6.3% by the end of the year while consumer prices would spike 3.7% by early 2026, according to CNN.
The latest numbers on the U.S. economy fly in the face of the naysayers, branded by Trump as &#8220;panicans.&#8221; Late last week, the U.S. Census Bureau <a href="https://www.census.gov/retail/sales.html">reported</a> that June retail sales were up 0.6% from May and up 3.5% from last year. Food service and drinks sales jumped 6.6% from June 2024. Those numbers were, of course, better than what economists had predicted — a phrase that has become a monthly tradition since Trump stepped back into the White House
According to University of Michigan surveys, American consumers expected prices to rise 6.6% this year. But so far, there&#8217;s been no sign of inflation jumping through the roof, and even <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/business/tariff-price-increases-inflation-explained">CNN</a> had to admit last month, &#8220;Love tariffs or hate them, there’s no denying inflation is lower now than when Trump took office.&#8221;
The numbers don&#8217;t lie: inflation under Trump has defied economists&#8217; predictions in nearly every month the president has been in office. In April, year-over-year inflation came in at 2.3%, its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-hits-lowest-point-in-over-4-years-as-april-report-better-than-expected">lowest annual rate</a> in more than four years. The Consumer Price Index <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/great-numbers-report-shows-no-significant-tariff-related-price-jumps-for-3rd-straight-month">rose</a> to just 2.4% in May compared to last year, which again was lower than what the &#8220;experts&#8221; predicted. Meanwhile, the Producer Price Index, which measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers, had its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-wholesale-prices-see-biggest-drop-in-5-years-flying-in-the-face-of-economists-predictions">biggest drop</a> in five years in April, falling 0.5%.
As inflation numbers continue to look good for the Trump administration, U.S. job growth also beat expectations in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-hot-job-growth-again-beats-expectations">May</a> and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/jobs-report-june-2025.html#:~:text=Nonfarm%20payrolls%20increased%20a%20seasonally,158%2C000%20following%20an%2011%2C000%20increase.">June</a> while unemployment ticks down.
“During his first six months in office, President Trump has repeatedly embarrassed the panicans who predicted doom and gloom, from inflation to recession. Under President Trump, Americans have seen an end to Joe Biden’s inflation crisis, multiple expectation-beating jobs reports, record tariff revenue collection, bond and stock market rallies, and historic investment commitments worth trillions that will cement America’s dominance in cutting-edge sectors,&#8221; White House Spokesman Kush Desai told The Daily Wire.
Still, many economists continue to warn of a coming inflation crisis due to Trump&#8217;s aggressive tariff policy. It&#8217;s only a matter of time before tariffs cause the inevitable chaos in America&#8217;s economy, they say. That fear, however, isn&#8217;t reflected in the stock market, which recently soared to record highs, or in the minds of consumers and business owners who remain optimistic about the economy.
Even with the latest CPI report showing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-creeps-up-as-trump-prepares-major-tariff-rollout?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Inflation+Creeps+Up+As+Trump+Prepares+Major+Tariff+Rollout">slight increase</a> in inflation, prices remain steady or even down over Trump&#8217;s second term. And with Trump&#8217;s tariffs going into effect, the United States is raking in billions of dollars in revenue. The country has brought in over $100 billion in tariff revenue since Trump took office in January, with tariff collections for the 2025 fiscal year jumping 65% from the previous year, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/trump-tariffs-customs-revenue">reported</a> in late June.
Numerous foreign and American companies have also pledged to invest billions of dollars in the United States over the next few years, either to avoid Trump&#8217;s tariffs or to invest in the American energy and manufacturing boom that is quickly taking shape. Just last week, Trump met with executives from Google’s parent company Alphabet, along with officials from Meta, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, and other companies, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-meet-with-tech-and-energy-giants-after-google-announces-huge-investment-in-u-s">pledged $90 billion</a> worth of AI and energy investments in Pennsylvania.
For the &#8220;experts,&#8221; the rapid pace of the administration&#8217;s economic agenda has been shocking. For Trump, this was all a part of his plan.
&#8220;The best is yet to come – as the pro-growth policies of The One Big Beautiful Bill and new trade deals kick in, America’s economic resurgence under President Trump will only accelerate,&#8221; Desai added.

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Longtime blue-collar job proponent Mike Rowe had heaps of praise for an acknowledgement made by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the future.
“What we need more than anything right now is we need to celebrate skilled craft workers,” Huang said during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s Morning Joe. “We’ve moved away from industrialization and manufacturing for so long that there’s a void for the ability to manufacture things,” he continued, saying he loves that the United States is building AI factories, which will “need skilled craft.”
“We need to go back and make sure that the trade schools are really well invested in,” Huang added.
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My first two words on this particular Sunday morning were &quot;Hallelujah!” followed by, “Amen!”
I was not in church when I uttered them. I was at my kitchen table, watching the CEO of the most valuable company in the world say precisely what mikeroweWORKS has been espousing for the… <a href="https://t.co/oxNZZfzqTv">pic.twitter.com/oxNZZfzqTv</a>
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Rowe responded with praise for what the tech industry exec was saying.
“My first two words on this particular Sunday morning were ‘Hallelujah!’ followed by ‘Amen!’” the “Dirty Jobs” host wrote as part of his lengthy response.
“If you haven’t already heard, a massive challenge is upon us. With regard to artificial intelligence and the energy we need to feed it, America will either change its current direction, or get left far, far behind. I know this because I run a modest foundation that has been arguing for decades that the portion of our workforce most often described as ‘the skilled trades’ will become the most essential component of our economy, our independence, and our collective future,” he went on. 
“Well, the future is here. Obviously, I didn’t know that the race to dominate artificial intelligence would be the thing that finally galvanized the folks at the grown-up table. When I founded mikeroweWORKS in 2008, I figured it would be a new commitment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure that would necessitate a collective push to reinvigorate the trades.&#8221;
Rowe said, &#8220;That need is still pressing, but I never imagined the most urgent cry for more welders and electricians would be ushered in by the need for more data centers. Back then, I didn’t even know what a data center was. But today, here we are. Data centers are headline news, because they are – as Jensen Huang says &#8211; AI factories. And if we want to remain competitive with China, we need to build thousands of them. Now. And presently, we simply don’t have the workforce to do it.”
He went on to explain that skilled trades need “better PR” at a national level and that people need to realize that these skills are “in demand.” 
Rowe went into detail about attempting to help then-President Barack Obama push “shovel-ready jobs,” but not having much success. Now he’s turning his attention to assisting Trump.
“Just as I was rooting for President Obama in 2009, I’m rooting for President Trump today. I hope he succeeds in reinvigorating our industrial base and reshoring our manufacturing capabilities, and I want to offer my support. But if he does succeed, we’re talking about millions new jobs in manufacturing alone,” Rowe added.

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The United States added 147,000 jobs in June, beating expectations for the fourth straight month — the latest economic win for President Donald Trump and his administration.
The June jobs report, released Thursday, shows growth across sectors as the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, its lowest since February. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1940754759784288760">celebrated</a> the news, and promised that the economy would continue to boom if Congress passes the One Big Beautiful Bill.
“For the FOURTH month in a row, jobs numbers have beat market expectations with nearly 150,000 good jobs created in June,&#8221; Leavitt said in a <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1940754759784288760">statement</a> on X.&#8221; American-born workers have accounted for ALL of the job gains since President Trump took office and wages continue to rise. The economy is booming again and it will only get better when the One, Big, Beautiful Bill is passed and implemented!”
&#8220;This jobs market is like the Energizer Bunny,&#8221; CNN reporter Matt Egan said Thursday. &#8220;Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going,&#8221; one analyst said. &#8220;We were also expecting a slow down — we did not get that.&#8221;
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CNN: &quot;This jobs market is like the Energizer Bunny. Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going.&quot;
&quot;We were also expecting a slowdown — we did NOT get that.&quot;
&quot;The unemployment rate was expected to go up — it didn&#39;t. It went DOWN.&quot;
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Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940759992749212147">credited</a> President Trump&#8217;s strategy for the growth.
&#8220;Hats off to President Trump because this three-legged stool of his has really been powerful: the trade, the taxes, and deregulations together,&#8221; Ortiz told Fox News. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about jobs, job, jobs.&#8221;
The increase beat both the 110,00 jobs projected by the Dow Jones and the later revised 144,000.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said there was little change in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, professional and business, and leisure and hospitality industries since last month.
The federal government lost 7,000 jobs, a total decrease of 69,000 jobs since January.
Average hourly pay increased by eight cents to $36.30, a 3.7% increase since this time last year, the report said.
Native-born employment is up more than two million since January, the Council of Economic Advisors <a href="https://x.com/CEA47/status/1940761777408712763">said</a> on social media. Foreign-born employment is down more than 500,000.
&#8220;For the same months last year, foreign-born workers accounted for about 48% of new jobs,&#8221; the council said.
A study from the Center for Immigration Studies, released in June 2024, found that the majority of employment growth since the pandemic went to legal and illegal immigrants, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-one-quarter-of-job-growth-went-to-natural-born-americans-since-2019-study-finds">reported</a>. Although former President Joe Biden touted the millions of jobs created during his presidency, only one quarter of those jobs went to native-born workers.

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Perhaps it is fitting that legendary Beach Boy and California native son Brian Wilson would pass away in the same year that a New York Times headline would ask, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/california-turmoil-resilience.html">“Is the California Dream a Mirage?”</a>
The social, environmental and economic disaster that is California has been mushrooming for decades now, with any improvements in the near term looking about as likely as a working bullet train from the north to the south in that state. The litany of negative facts emerging for the state is accompanied by descriptors such as “worst,” “first,” “record,” “ballooning,” “unsustainable,” “disaster,” and “mismanagement.” These ills are detailed in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-assemblyman-explains-how-state-has-mismanaged-fire-prevention-policies-as-wildfires-rage">myriad</a> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/bad-policy-served-as-kindling-for-californias-wildfires-forest-water-management-social-justice-c5b94a4f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAif-IufnKaxHOP49zFGTHPZhQuqrXUEi-2TLq3CTiNpkYvlSDqNxFWNzK60iAw%3D&amp;gaa_ts=685d8562&amp;gaa_sig=3-LfR_GHU3tLPG-o-YsVjgoRNU1-opiK9zrnQzURPOZIBNcm7OIKeIV5kTdTHBKbOeKnRJ-BbcIcuJq-0ipu3Q%3D%3D">articles</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/11/opinion/catastrophic-wildfires-left-la-in-ashes-due-to-californias-failing-liberal-leadership/">pointing</a> to California’s failed leadership.
Consider the overall economic situation. California went from a state budget surplus of <a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/after-100-billion-surplus-california-now-faces-73-billion-budget-deficit">$100b to a deficit of $73b</a> in just three years. This was driven in part from its decision in February of 2020 to escalate spending significantly while it was <a href="https://www.ppic.org/publication/whats-behind-californias-recent-population-decline-and-why-it-matters/">losing jobs</a>, and for the first time since receiving statehood in 1850, population. Between 2010 and 2023, the state saw 9.3 million people leave while only 6.7 million arrived — with a disproportionate number of the “leavers” in the high-income, high-tax-paying category.
California had the distinction of being rated as the very worst state in which to do business by <a href="https://chiefexecutive.net/california-is-the-worst-state-for-business-2014/">Chief Executive</a> magazine — for ten years in a row. Others were more positive with The <a href="https://sbecouncil.org/2019/05/06/new-report-sbe-council-ranks-50-states-according-to-public-policy-and-tax-climates-for-small-business/">Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council</a> seeing them as only the second worst state, and the <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/best-worse-states-entrepreneurs">Cato Institute</a> placing them at 48th out of 50 for entrepreneurs.
<a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/reports/worsttobest/">The California Policy Center</a> concludes: 
“For anyone operating a business in California – small, medium or large – the experiences of the last twenty years have been challenging, and it gets worse every year. California’s regulatory environment, its high taxes and exorbitant fees, and the overall cost of doing business are the toughest in the nation. Many businesses have voted with their feet, moving their operations to more welcoming business environments.” 
According to WalletHub.com’s report “<a href="https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-to-retire/6165">Best &amp; Worst Places to Retire (2025)</a>,” which examined 182 cities across the U.S., four out five of the worst cities in which to retire are in California.
The story is equally daunting in a host of other arenas for the state — education, illegal immigration, water, violent crime, theft, housing, insurance, energy, environment, assorted taxes and fees, cost of living, state employee pensions, healthcare, and more. <a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/%23editorial">ConsumerAffairs</a>, a consumer news and advocacy organization, compared all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. across five categories: affordability, economy, education and health, quality of life, and safety. California ranked as the single least desirable state to move to. Their conclusion might have been influenced by seeing that, compared to all other 49 states in the nation, California has the:
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<li>Highest <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-280.html">poverty rate</a></li>
<li>Highest top marginal <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-income-tax-rates/">state income tax rate</a></li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://www.redfin.com/blog/most-expensive-states-to-buy-a-house/">median home price</a></li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-gas-tax-rates-2024/">gasoline tax</a></li>
<li>Highest number of federal <a href="https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/welfare-recipients-by-state">welfare recipients</a></li>
<li>Highest amount of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-states-blame-most-nearly-400-million-unemployment-fraud">unemployment benefit fraud</a></li>
<li>Highest number of <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/">illegal immigrants</a></li>
<li>Highest percentage of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/map-states-most-high-school-dropouts-1872310">high school dropouts</a></li>
<li>Highest rates of <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/human-trafficking-statistics-by-state">human trafficking</a></li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://247wallst.com/special-report/2024/02/13/this-is-the-state-with-the-most-homeless-people-every-state-ranked/">homeless population</a></li>
<li>Highest level of <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/pension/comparative_view/table/">state pension shortfall</a></li>
<li>Highest level of <a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/states-people-are-moving-to-and-from.html">net exodus</a> from the state</li>
<li>Highest <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/630090/states-with-the-average-electricity-price-for-the-residential-sector-in-the-us/">cost for kilowatt hours</a> in the continental U.S.</li>
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While many folks have wryly referred to California as, “the most expensive weather in the world,” an increasing number of people are rethinking that cost — especially when the weather itself is now regularly accompanied by wildfires, mudslides, and earthquakes.
The <a href="https://hgbr.org/californias-economic-challenges-a-growing-exodus-and-policy-concerns/">Hampton Global Business Review</a> concludes, “The allure of California’s beaches and innovation hubs might not be enough to counteract the growing disenchantment among its residents and business leaders.”
While all of this is more than sobering, contrary to the popular narrative, the untenable situation in which the state now finds itself cannot be blamed solely or even largely on the handful of people who have occupied the top leadership roles or even the few thousand in mid-tier management/political roles for the state. To be sure, many of those people have largely been far worse than feckless; they have been actively counterproductive — perhaps even maleficent. But blaming leadership is like blaming guns for shooting homicides. They could not have performed this disservice without the active support of the California voters.
Time and time again, California voters continue to check the box for more of the same people who continue to inflict damage on them for decades now. But more importantly, they knowingly do so. No objective observer can credibly argue that Californians have been fooled or misled by their leaders or the outrageous decisions they have made, or failed to make.
The great scholar, author, and life-long California resident Dr. Victor Davis Hanson has for years <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/28121811-the-decline-and-fall-of-california">detailed</a> the disastrous results of many of these decisions — from eliminating fire-preventing forest management, to not only failing to build appropriate dams but blowing up existing dams and eliminating reservoirs, to promoting unchecked and mass illegal immigration.
There was likely no more clarifying moment of truth on this point than when Governor Gavin Newsom faced a recall. His record was damning. There was the bungled and hypocritical mismanagement of the COVID virus response — complete with vaccine shortages, maskless French Laundry dinners with friends, and arbitrary business closure guidelines, a budget deficit that was more than double his own projection, and most importantly, the ignoring or exacerbation of most of the long list of the aforementioned maladies destroying the state.
Not only did the recall effort fail miserably, with Newsom receiving a convincing approval mandate of 62% of the vote, but he was then solidly re-elected in 2022 with nearly that same margin. California voters, no doubt painfully aware of all of these issues essentially said, “Yes, yes, yes! Give us more of this!”
But suppose for just a moment that Newsom had been recalled, that perhaps he had skewered one of the sacred cows big enough to motivate his ouster. Perhaps he drove a diesel car, or contended that there is something wrong about allowing a 250lb biological male athlete to compete with women, or suggested that maybe the unpunished shoplifting limit should be reduced from $950 to say $500, or publicly stated that illegal immigrants are not entitled to the same rights as U.S. citizens. Who would voters have suggested take his place? It almost certainly would have been another entity not dissimilar to Newsom in any significant way.
All of this is exacerbated by the fact that so many logically thinking, hard-working, patriotic Americans are leaving California if they can. With each passing year, the state is left with an increasingly left-leaning voter base — and they like it that way.  Thus, it is folly to believe that California’s ills can be solved as simply as replacing a few, key incompetent leaders. California’s failed leadership is not nearly as problematic as its failed follower-ship. And that is a far harder nut to crack.
Brian Wilson made a career writing songs about the abundant fun, fun, fun available in the Golden State. Were he with us today, begrudgingly or not, he would have to admit that clearly, daddy took the T-Bird away.
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Greg Salsbury, Ph.D. is former president of Western Colorado University and Board of Advisor member for <a href="https://starrs.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STARRS.US</a>.
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The global economy is no longer years, months, or weeks away from the artificial intelligence revolution.
From <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/metas-new-ai-system-tackles-harmful-content/">Meta</a> utilizing it for social media content moderation to <a href="https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/meet-green-dot-assist-starbucks-generative-ai-powered-coffeehouse-companion/#:~:text=Green%20Dot%20Assist%20is%20a,in%20delivering%20exceptional%20customer%20service.">Starbucks</a> employing AI to assist baristas with everyday tasks, AI is here. For some job-seekers, AI&#8217;s role in a company could even be affecting them during the hiring process, selecting some candidates over others without any human intervention.
But can be trusted to select the most qualified candidates for a job opening? New research suggests it can&#8217;t — because some of the most popular AI language models used by many companies in the hiring process could be discriminating against certain candidates based on race and sex.
A <a href="https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10922">study</a> published earlier this month by independent researchers Adam Karvonen and Samuel Marks shows that the &#8220;leading commercial &#8230; and open-source [AI language] models&#8221; used by major companies insert &#8220;significant racial and gender biases&#8221; in the hiring process. The research found that AI language models such as Chat GPT-4o, Claude 4 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Flash, along with open-source models Gemma-2 27B, Gemma-3, and Mistral-24B, &#8220;consistently favor Black over White candidates and female over male candidates across all tested models and scenarios.&#8221;
Karvonen told The Daily Wire that their research should raise red flags for companies using AI to hire employees. He said that it&#8217;s possible for companies to add their own &#8220;safeguards&#8221; to prevent AI from discriminating against people simply based on their race or sex, but added, &#8220;Since companies generally do not disclose the details of their internal safeguards, we cannot independently verify that these systems are fair and robust.&#8221;
&#8220;Our work shows that standard resume anonymization may not be a complete solution,&#8221; Karvonen said. &#8220;For example, we found that models would infer a candidate&#8217;s race from their college affiliation and become biased as a result. Even if you remove obvious identifiers like names, bias can still creep in through other background details. This is another reason why a technical fix like ours, which prevents the model from processing these concepts at all, can be more robust than simply hiding surface-level information.&#8221;
The study found that asking AI models to consider &#8220;real-world contextual details&#8221; and to focus on &#8220;a highly selective hiring process&#8221; can cause the AI to become biased and discriminate against white people, especially white men, who received &#8220;up to 12% differences in interview rates.&#8221;
&#8220;Even if everything else is the same — the resume is the same, the experience is the same — stereotypically white names are less likely to pass through the interview process,&#8221; Jason Hausenloy, an independent AI safety researcher, told The Daily Wire.
Hausenloy added that the AI language models favored minority job candidates, even if a company&#8217;s diversity pledges and statements were completely removed from the scenario.
&#8220;Just the very act of making the hiring scenarios more realistic meant that they are more likely to be biased,&#8221; he said.
The Daily Wire reached out to the companies running the AI language models highlighted in the study, which include Google, OpenAI, Claude, and Mistral. An OpenAI spokesman told The Daily Wire that &#8220;AI tools can be useful in hiring, but they can also be biased. They should be used to help, not replace, human decision-making in important choices like job eligibility.&#8221;
&#8220;OpenAI has safety teams dedicated to researching and reducing bias, and other risks, in our models,&#8221; the spokesman added. &#8220;Bias is an important, industry-wide problem and we use a multi-prong approach, including researching best practices for adjusting training data and prompts to result in less biased results, improving accuracy of content filters and refining automated and human monitoring systems. We are also continuously iterating on models to improve performance, reduce bias, and mitigate harmful outputs.”
None of the other companies responded to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request to comment.
It&#8217;s not just a few mega corporations using AI to weed out job candidates. A <a href="https://www.resumebuilder.com/7-in-10-companies-will-use-ai-in-the-hiring-process-in-2025-despite-most-saying-its-biased/">study</a> published by Resume Builder last October found that half of all companies are already using AI in the hiring process and predicts that this will increase to 70% by the end of 2025. The study surveyed 948 business leaders who work at a company with more than 21 employees.
&#8220;Today, 82% of companies use AI to review resumes, while 40% employ AI chatbots to communicate with candidates. About 23% use AI to conduct interviews, and 64% apply AI to review candidate assessments,&#8221; Resume Builder reported. &#8220;Additionally, 28% of companies use AI for onboarding new hires, and 42% scan social media or personal websites as part of the hiring process. Only 0.2% of companies report not using AI in their hiring practices.&#8221;
Hausenloy told The Daily Wire that no one really knows what could be causing these leading AI language models to be discriminating against people based on race and sex.
&#8220;I would very strongly suspect that the companies are not trying to optimize this behavior,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think OpenAI is saying, &#8216;You must be biased against white males.'&#8221;
&#8220;We actually don&#8217;t know why this happens, but it is a consistent finding,&#8221; Hausenloy added.
He said that there are some &#8220;promising&#8221; findings in the new study, adding that companies could easily fix the AI&#8217;s tendency to discriminate against white men.
&#8220;You can use certain technical techniques to remove the concept of race and bias from the language models if you edit the internal concepts within the models,&#8221; Hausenloy said.
AI discrimination in hiring, however, could be part of a larger issue with the new technology.
The Center for AI Safety <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAzSj24Fp0O6GfkskmnULmI1Hmx7k_EJ/view">published a study</a> earlier this year that could shed some more light on why these AI language models are opting for blatant discrimination. According to the findings, AI models value certain people more than others, preferring people from Africa and the Middle East over people in Europe and the United States.
&#8220;We’ve found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems,&#8221; wrote Dan Hendrycks, the director for the Center for AI Safety. &#8220;For example they value lives in Pakistan &gt; India &gt; China &gt; US. These are not just random biases, but internally consistent values that shape their behavior, with many implications for AI alignment.&#8221;
&#8220;Internally, AIs have values for everything. This often implies shocking/undesirable preferences. For example, we find AIs put a price on human life itself and systematically value some human lives more than others,&#8221; he added.
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American car manufacturing giant General Motors is set to invest $4 billion in the United States, moving production of three vehicles from Mexico.
GM plans to move production of full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups from Mexico to its Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan, a plant that had recently been repurposed to focus on electric trucks until demand for EVs dropped, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2025/06/10/gm-plans-4-billion-push-to-move-production-from-mexico-to-u-s/84135790007/">reported</a> on Tuesday. GM&#8217;s gas-powered Equinox will be made in Fairfax, Kansas, and the gas-powered Blazer will be made in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The auto company&#8217;s major shift back is set to take place through 2027 and will move the assembly of more than two million vehicles to the United States, GM said, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/gm-to-invest-4-billion-in-us-manufacturing-plants-amid-tariffs.html">CNBC</a>.
“We believe the future of transportation will be driven by American innovation and manufacturing expertise,” GM CEO Mary Barra said. “Today’s announcement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to build vehicles in the U.S. and to support American jobs. We&#8217;re focused on giving customers choice and offering a broad range of vehicles they love.”
The announcement, which comes after President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign auto imports, was celebrated by the Trump administration.
“No president has taken a stronger interest in reviving America’s once-great auto industry than President Trump, and GM’s investment announcement builds on trillions of dollars in other historic investment commitments to Make in America,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said, according to The Detroit News.
Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also praised GM&#8217;s decision, saying it would bring &#8220;more auto manufacturing back home to Michigan, protecting thousands of good-paying, union auto jobs.&#8221;
The future of the Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, which currently produces the Equinox and the Blazer, remains uncertain. The production of the Blazer is set to fully move to the United States, while some Equinoxes will still be made at the Mexico plant for other markets, CNBC reported.
Last month, GM said it was also cutting back on production at a truck plant in Ontario, Canada, due to Trump&#8217;s auto tariff, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/general-motors-to-cut-back-on-manufacturing-at-canada-plant-over-trump-tariff?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=General+Motors+To+Cut+Back+On+Manufacturing+At+Canada+Plant+Over+Trump+Tariff">reported</a>. The auto giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/general-motors-to-cut-back-on-manufacturing-at-canada-plant-over-trump-tariff?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=General+Motors+To+Cut+Back+On+Manufacturing+At+Canada+Plant+Over+Trump+Tariff">said</a> in April that it planned to ramp up production of light-duty trucks at its assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which promises to add more temporary jobs and increase overtime opportunities for employees.

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Job growth for the month of May again beat expectations as 139,000 jobs were added to the American economy, and the unemployment rate remained steady, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
The <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, released Friday, found that the private sector continued to add jobs while government employment declined. The unemployment rate did not change from April, remaining at 4.2%.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated the news, saying it reflected President Donald Trump’s successful economic policies. 
“President Trump’s America First Economic Agenda has created a BOOMING economy — jobs are up, unemployment is down, wages are increasing, and inflation is dead,” she <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1930980549906063803">said</a> on social media. “More than 139,000 good jobs were added to the private sector in May, all accounted for by American-born workers. Americans should continue to Trust in President Trump, who continues to beat expectations.”
The 139,000 job growth was more than the 125,000 that had been projected by the Dow Jones estimate. Last month, job growth also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/solid-april-jobs-report-shows-govt-employment-drops-as-private-sector-growth-beats-expectations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceeded expectations</a>, although the increase was revised down by 30,000 jobs in the latest report. 
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Industries that saw the most growth were health care (62,000), leisure and hospitality (48,000), and social assistance (16,000). Federal government employment declined by 22,000. 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics added that there was little change in mining, oil and gas extraction, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, and the financial activities industries from the previous month. 
At the same time, average hourly pay increased 15 cents to $36.24 last month. 
“The small business economy is growing and the private economy is growing. This is exactly what Donald Trump wanted to do for reversing everything that Biden had done,” <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-higher-pay-for-american-workers/">said </a>Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz in response to the report. “It’s so good to see that we’re actually creating private economy jobs again.”
The stock markets rose after the job report was released, with the S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by more than one percent.
&#8220;GREAT JOB NUMBERS, STOCK MARKET UP BIG! AT THE SAME TIME, BILLIONS POURING IN FROM TARIFFS!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636826069773755">posted</a> on Truth Social Friday morning.
In a series of other posts, Trump lauded the economy and urged the Federal Reserve to take action to cut interest rates.
&#8220;AMERICA IS HOT! SIX MONTHS AGO IT WAS COLD AS ICE! BORDER IS CLOSED, PRICES ARE DOWN. WAGES ARE UP!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636535351943737">wrote</a>.
In another post, he said that the Fed&#8217;s decision not to cut rates was costing the United States &#8220;a fortune.&#8221;
&#8220;If &#8216;Too Late&#8217; at the Fed would CUT, we would greatly reduce interest rates, long and short, on debt that is coming due. Biden went mostly short term,&#8221; Trump added in another <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636734825372318">post</a>. &#8220;There is virtually no inflation (anymore), but if it should come back, RAISE &#8216;RATE&#8217; TO COUNTER. Very Simple!!! He is costing our Country a fortune. Borrowing costs should be MUCH LOWER!!!&#8221;

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