Claim About US Job Losses Under Trump Fact-Checked
“f IN THE LAST 15 YEARS THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN 9 MONTHS WHERE THE AMERICAN ECONOMY LOST JOBS. ALL 9 HAPPENED UNDER DONALD TRUMP”
Summary
Over the past 15 years the U.S. economy experienced numerous months of net job losses, notably during the Great Recession (2008‑2010) and the COVID‑19 pandemic in 2020, well before and after Donald Trump’s term. The record shows many more than nine loss months, and they were not confined solely to the Trump administration.
Sources 78 searched
- Economy & Jobs – The White House
Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent, compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration
- The True State Of The Union Under Trump: Broken Promises, Higher Prices And Fewer Jobs For American Families | Senate Democratic Leadership
WSJ- U.S. Has Lost Manufacturing Jobs Every Month Since ‘Liberation Day’. “American manufacturers shed about 8,000 jobs in December, according to the Labor Department, marking the eighth straight month of losses since President Trump's ...
- Trump ends his term like a growing number of Americans: out of a job | Reuters
A global pandemic that Trump - who lost his bid for re-election to Democrat Joe Biden in November - was late to recognize and prone to downplay or outright deny through much of its course laid waste to the U.S. economy in the final year of his term. It erased all semblance of the booming job market that he had hoped would vault him to a second term. Instead, as the Labor Department reported on Friday, total U.S. employment fell in December by 140,000 to 142.6 million, roughly 10 million fewer jobs than before the coronavirus pandemic struck. The economic record books will count January's employment figures in Trump's column since he leaves office near the end of the month on Jan.
- Trump ends his term like a growing number of Americans: out of a job | Reuters
The final employment scorecard ... a mantle no politician would envy: He will be the only modern president to leave office with fewer U.S. jobs than when his term began....
- Employment Situation Summary - 2026 M02 Results
The industry had lost an average of 5,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. In February, federal government employment continued to decline (-10,000). Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 330,000, ...
- Transmission of material in this news release is embargoed until USDL-26-0367
average of 5,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. In February, federal government employment continued to decline (-10,000). Since reaching a peak in · October 2024, federal government employment is down by 330,000, or 11.0 percent. Employment in social assistance continued its upward ...
- Civilian unemployment rate
An official website of the United States government Here is how you know · The .gov means it's official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you're on a federal government site
- The Trump Administration’s Shockingly Dishonest, Out-Of-Touch Response To Terrible Jobs Report | U.S. Representative Don Beyer
Friday morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the August jobs report, which found that employment in the United States “has shown little change since April.” The U.S. economy has averaged just 27,000 jobs added per month over the ...
- Trump's Final Numbers - FactCheck.org
It takes several months for some of the data to be finalized. While it’s likely some numbers will be revised in the future, we now have measures for Trump’s complete time in office. Some of these figures, notably the net job loss and gross domestic product, were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which struck in Trump’s final year in office, becoming a defining issue of his tenure.
- Après un an de présidence Trump, l’économie américaine crée beaucoup moins d’emplois que sous Biden
Le nombre d’employés fédéraux, qui avait atteint un pic en janvier 2024 à la fin du mandat de Joe Biden, est en fort déclin : − 277 000 postes sur un an, soit une baisse de 9,2 %. Donald Trump avait missionné Elon Musk à la tête ...
- L'économie américaine est-elle meilleure ou pire aujourd'hui que sous Trump ? - BBC News Afrique
Avant les importantes pertes d'emplois en 2020 dues à Covid, près de 6,7 millions d'emplois ont été créés au cours des trois premières années de la présidence de Trump, selon les données relatives aux emplois non agricoles (qui couvrent ...
- L'économie américaine sous Donald Trump, en cinq ...
Depuis mai, le chômage a entamé sa décrue, pour tomber à 7,9% en septembre. Donald Trump avait certes pris ses fonctions une fois l'économie assainie. Mais avant la pandémie, l'administration Trump avait aussi su dynamiser la croissance, ...