New jobs report ‘will go far’ to show Trump’s affordability work helping Americans
A new jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week has triggered President Donald Trump, whose agenda for the nation heading into the 2026 midterms is to make things more affordable for consumers.
“Just in: GREAT JOBS NUMBERS, FAR GREATER THAN EXPECTED! The United States of America should be paying MUCH LESS on its Borrowings (BONDS!). We are again the strongest Country in the World, and should therefore be paying the LOWEST INTERES RATE, by far. This would be an INTEREST COST SAVINGS OF AT LEAST ONE TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR – BALANCED BUDGET, PLUS. WOW! The Golden Age of America is upon us!!!” Trump said on social media.
Experts were doing a “double-take” as nonfarm payrolls rose by 130,000 for January, not quite triple the Dow Jones consensus estimate of 55,000.
Unemployment also edged lower to 4.3%, below the forecast to stay unchanged at 4.4% from the prior month, according to RedState.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 11, 2026
.@cherylcasone reacts to the January jobs report: “Private payrolls — 172,000. I had to do a double take! 172,000 private jobs. Guys, that’s 100,000 ABOVE the estimate. We were looking for 70,000.” pic.twitter.com/DI9SzX1lOP
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 11, 2026
Job growth surged in January, adding 172,000 private-sector jobs – smashing expectations.
Private sector employment rose 615,000 in President Trump’s first year in office, while federal employment declined to its lowest level since 1966.
The labor market under Joe Biden… https://t.co/42eu57v78Q
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 11, 2026
A White House official said, “Today’s blockbuster, expectation-shattering jobs report proves that President Trump’s economic agenda continues to pay off. The unemployment rate fell and private sector job growth remains robust — particularly for specialty trade construction jobs as the trillions in investments secured by the President pour into American manufacturing.”
The statement also noted that the “Biden jobs market” was, in fact, awful, a problem Trump has been battling.
A statement noted the private sector jobs were being added even as the nation “shed 42,000 government jobs.”
The statement said, “In President Trump’s second term, 615,000 private sector jobs have been added while federal employment has declined to its lowest level since 1966 — and the lowest level in recorded history as a share of the total workforce.”
The report documents that labor force participation is up, with more people actually working and pursuing work, unemployment again is down – after it peaked at more than 9% under Biden, underemployment is down and government jobs are seeing a “BUST.”
The report revealed job growth over Biden’s final two years were “overstated” by “a whopping 1.9 million jobs.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average just days ago surpassed the 50,000 level for the first time ever, consumer sentiment is at a six-month high, gas prices are lower than a year ago and third quarter GDP was estimated to grow 4.4%, the result of Trump’s economic strength.