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She also lied and her attempted spin was so weak as to be pathetic.
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-jobs-report-august-2025
Trump’s labor secretary blames Powell for jobs report, says numbers ‘underperformed just a bit’
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer denied that tariffs have anything to do with the weak jobs numbers Friday, laying blame on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for refusing to bend to President Donald Trump’s pressure to lower interest rates.
“Well 22,000 jobs underperformed just a bit, but it’s still in the positive, almost a half a million jobs have been created since the President took office,” she said.
Asked if tariffs have anything to do with the slowing job market, Chavez de Remer said, “Tariffs are working.”
“How do I know this? Because companies are reinvesting in the American workforce. We’re seeing the consumer confidence up. We’re seeing real wages up year over year, almost 4% real wages are up,” she said.
“Well 22,000 jobs underperformed just a bit, but it’s still in the positive, almost a half a million jobs have been created since the President took office,” she said.
Asked if tariffs have anything to do with the slowing job market, Chavez de Remer said, “Tariffs are working.”
“How do I know this? Because companies are reinvesting in the American workforce. We’re seeing the consumer confidence up. We’re seeing real wages up year over year, almost 4% real wages are up,” she said.
Jobs are up by almost 500,000 (+487,000) since January but that represents extremely weak growth. As a comparison during the previous 7 months (The final 7 months of Biden's term) job growth was 1,138,000. Over Biden's entire Presidency, we averaged +336,000 jobs a month. Under Trump so far? +70,000. Even if you just include the period after jobs surpassed their pre-pandemic peak, Biden's average was 216,000.
She's says consumer Confidence is up, but that is false. There are 2 measures of Consumer Confidence. The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index and the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment. Both showed a spike in June, but both have declined since then and both are down since January (beginning of Trump's term) and over-the-year.
https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence/
DATE OF SURVEY INDEX OF CONSUMER SENTIMENT
August 2024 67.9
September 2024 70.1
October 2024 70.5
November 2024 71.8
December 2024 74.0
January 2025 71.7
February 2025 64.7
March 2025 57.0
April 2025 52.2
May 2025 52.2
June 2025 60.7
July 2025 61.7
August 2025 58.2
https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/
She also said real wages were up 4% year over year. According to BLS the true year-over-year increase is only 1.2% for hourly earnings and 1.4% for weekly earnings.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.t01.htm
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