Trump Creates 2 Million Jobs for American-born Workers as Foreign-Born Jobs Decrease

The White House announced that American-born workers have experienced a net increase of 2 million jobs since the start of the Trump administration this January. “American-born workers have accounted for ALL of the job gains since President Trump took office, and wages continue to rise,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

According to numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, native-born employment has increased by 2,079,000 since January, while foreign-born employment has fallen by 543,000 during the same period.

The announcement marks a pronounced shift in workforce trends compared to the same period last year, when American-born and foreign-born workers each shared roughly 50 percent of the job growth, due to skyrocketing immigration numbers. By January of this year, the number of foreign-born residents had risen to 53.3 million, representing 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population. The increase vastly outpaced the Census Bureau’s 2023 projection that the foreign-born share of the population would not reach 15.8 percent until 2043.

Several Fox Business analysts suggested that a primary reason why American-born workers have been the main beneficiaries of this year’s booming labor market is because of the Trump administration’s “crackdown on illegal immigration.”

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer responded to the news, saying, “The promises made by the president were that he was going to pay attention to the American worker, and that’s why you’re seeing American-born jobs be increased.”

She contrasted the numbers to job growth under the Biden administration last year, saying that then “50 percent of [new] jobs went to foreign-born workers.” Chavez-DeRemer added that every decision under the Trump administration “puts the American worker at the pinnacle of every decision.… They’re being put first.”

President Donald Trump has overseen an economically vibrant first six months, touting the largest growth in real wages for blue-collar workers in nearly 60 years, a steady low unemployment rate, and a booming labor market for American-born workers.

According to Leavitt, job numbers have beaten market expectations for four months in a row, as America saw 147,000 jobs created in June.

Even CNN was impressed with Trump’s economy. CNN’s Matt Egan said, “This job market is like the Energizer Bunny. Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going … We were also expecting a slowdown — we did NOT get that.”