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A delayed jobs report from September has unveiled good news about the American economy under President Donald Trump’s leadership, highlighting significant gains for native-born workers.
According to the September 2025 jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the American economy gained 119,000 nonfarm payrolls that month, with the most significant gains in healthcare, drinking places, social assistance, and food services.
Federal government employment, in contrast, continued its decline, losing 3,000 jobs in September and marking a total of 97,000 federal jobs lost since January amid the Trump administration’s bid to shrink government agencies.
“In stark contrast to the disastrous Biden economy, almost all of these new jobs were in the private sector and went to American-born workers instead of illegal aliens,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
She added, “Wages for workers are continuing to rise, a reversal of the Biden years where private sector wages declined by about $3,000 because of the Democrats’ inflation crisis.”
The favorable jobs report comes amid the Trump administration’s focus on affordability, a chief concern for most Americans.
“A huge jobs report, and I assume the market is going crazy right now,” said Vice President J.D. Vance during a discussion with Breitbart on Thursday. “…What this shows is that the Trump economic policies are actually working.”
The vice president also said that, “if you look below the surface,” he believed the job numbers were actually better than what was being presented.
“Wages continue to way outpace inflation,” he noted. “If you go back to the three years of the Biden administration, the average American worker actually lost about $3,000 of take-home pay. In the first ten months of the Trump economy, we’ve increased take-home pay by about $1,200, adjusting for inflation, so that’s a huge, huge thing – and this jobs report confirms that.”
Vice President Vance said that it was very important that this job growth is going to “native-born American citizens,” in contrast to the Biden years, when the majority of job creation went to the foreign-born or even illegal workers.
“The best thing that you can say about the Trump economy is that American jobs are going to American workers for a change,” he said.