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Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-worked-130017281.html
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day” tariffs have worked — if liberating Americans from their jobs was the actual goal.
The nation’s manufacturing sector, the very one Trump purportedly wanted to help with his import taxes, has instead been losing jobs every single month since he announced them in April. In all, there are now 67,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when he imposed tariffs on most imports.
That result is exactly the opposite of what Trump promised and predicted when he announced them on April 2.
“We created 10,000, already in a few weeks, new manufacturing jobs and that took place in one month, numbers that they haven’t seen in a long time,” Trump said, lying, to cheering supporters in what was still the Rose Garden, prior to his having paved it over. “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already.”
His overall jobs numbers are just as grim, according to statistics compiled by his own Department of Labor, particularly compared to predecessor Joe Biden’s robust record on that front. Over four years, Biden’s economy added more than 4 million jobs per year, or 336,225 per month.
“It’s not just tariffs,” said University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers. “It’s also uncertainty, chaos, incompetence, and a radical and idiosyncratic approach to economic policy.”
Trump’s White House aides and press office did not respond to HuffPost queries about his jobs record compared to Biden.
Even discounting the first two years, which largely just recovered the jobs lost during the COVID pandemic, the economy under Biden’s stewardship still picked up 2.1 million jobs per year from February 2023 through January 2025, an average of 178,042 per month.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-worked-130017281.html
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day” tariffs have worked — if liberating Americans from their jobs was the actual goal.
The nation’s manufacturing sector, the very one Trump purportedly wanted to help with his import taxes, has instead been losing jobs every single month since he announced them in April. In all, there are now 67,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when he imposed tariffs on most imports.
That result is exactly the opposite of what Trump promised and predicted when he announced them on April 2.
“We created 10,000, already in a few weeks, new manufacturing jobs and that took place in one month, numbers that they haven’t seen in a long time,” Trump said, lying, to cheering supporters in what was still the Rose Garden, prior to his having paved it over. “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already.”
His overall jobs numbers are just as grim, according to statistics compiled by his own Department of Labor, particularly compared to predecessor Joe Biden’s robust record on that front. Over four years, Biden’s economy added more than 4 million jobs per year, or 336,225 per month.
“It’s not just tariffs,” said University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers. “It’s also uncertainty, chaos, incompetence, and a radical and idiosyncratic approach to economic policy.”
Trump’s White House aides and press office did not respond to HuffPost queries about his jobs record compared to Biden.
Even discounting the first two years, which largely just recovered the jobs lost during the COVID pandemic, the economy under Biden’s stewardship still picked up 2.1 million jobs per year from February 2023 through January 2025, an average of 178,042 per month.
