Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked -- They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs
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.”
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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.
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.In contrast, the economy has added only 499,000 total jobs since Trump returned to office, or 49,900 per month. Most of those jobs were added in his first three months. From May, the month after he announced his tariffs, through November, the net number of jobs added is 119,000, or just 17,000 per month. Several months saw net job losses.
Trump’s usual approach to discussing his jobs records is to lie about it, just as he does with the cost of living and, recently, grocery prices. In fact, Trump’s tariff policies have increased food inflation dramatically. In Biden’s last year in office, inflation on grocery items had fallen to 1.8%. After Trump imposed tariffs, the food inflation rate jumped to 3.1%, according to a HuffPost analysis.
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