Despite every single month of downward revisions in the jobs data released every month, the Trump administration has decided to continue printing numbers that fall apart once revisions, industry breakdowns, and labor force numbers are added up.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report said the economy added 178,000 jobs in March 2026, with 186,000 private-sector jobs, but also explained that the gain mainly came from a bounce after a weak month before it.
Throughout the first 12 months of Donald Trump’s second term, total job growth was just 260,000, or 0.2%, while private jobs rose 502,000, or 0.4%, which Cryptopolitan reported previously.
In an economy with more than 158 million people working, that equals an average of only 21,670 jobs a month.
<h3 id="consistent-us-job-numbers-revisions-rip-through-the-white-house-s-official-story">Consistent US job numbers revisions rip through the White House’s official story</h3>
The <a href="https://www.cryptopolitan.com/jd-vance-labor-secretary-trumps-jobs-data/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">jobs revisions</a> have been consistent and brutal. This February was first reported as -92,000 jobs, later revised to -133,000, making it the biggest monthly U.S. job loss since December 2020.
In September 2025, the U.S. Labor Department actually revised away 911,000 jobs from 12 months of already reported data. This is the largest revision in history, and said the overstatement ran at about 76,000 jobs per month, officially worse than 2009 levels.
It is also very interesting that almost all of these so-called job creations came from healthcare, the same place JD Vance is apparently investigating for fraud.
The unemployment <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">rate</a> moved from 4.4% to 4.3% in March, but that drop came as 396,000 people left the labor force.
The White House was also pushing a larger fiscal message. The president’s fiscal 2027 budget outline, released Friday, gave no top-line figures for deficits or debt.
What it did provide was direction: higher tariffs, lower taxes, more money for the military and border security, and less money for the social safety net. In a video the White House later deleted, Trump said the federal government should not help fund child care.
He said, “You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too.” He also said, “We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”
<h3 id="trump-cuts-through-dozens-of-budgets-to-increase-us-defense-department-spending">Trump cuts through dozens of budgets to increase US defense department spending</h3>
The budget outline called for a 42% increase in <a href="https://www.cryptopolitan.com/ai-defense-boost-europe-industrial-sector/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">defense spending</a> and a 10% cut in nondefense spending. It targeted renewable energy, refugee resettlement, and housing programs the administration labeled “woke.” It pushed missile defense and beautification projects in Washington, D.C., while reducing money for environmental justice efforts and electric-vehicle charging.
To help cover a new $1.5 trillion military budget, the plan cut $510 million for farmer grants and agricultural research, $82 million in rural small-business loans, $61 million for farmers and food markets, and $240 million for school meals and food education for children abroad.
Then $659 million in community building grants, $47 million for minority-owned businesses, $449 million in local economic development grants, $1.6 billion from NOAA weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection, $993 million for science and technology standards, $150 million for exports and trade, $2.2 billion for broadband, $8.5 billion for public schools, $1.5 billion for vocational training and adult education, $2.7 billion for college access, and $15.2 billion for roads, bridges, and infrastructure.
<h3 id="cuts-hit-schools-housing-health-science-and-small-business">Cuts hit schools, housing, health, science, and small business</h3>
The same proposal also cut $1.1 billion for home energy efficiency and clean energy programs, $1.1 billion for scientific research, $386 million for environmental cleanup, $150 million for advanced clean-energy research, $4 billion for low-income home heating and cooling aid, $768 million for refugee resettlement, $819 million for care and shelter for migrant children, $775 million for anti-poverty programs.
We also have $5 billion for public health, mental health, and disease prevention, $5 billion for NIH medical research, $129 million for healthcare quality and safety research, $356 million for emergency preparedness, $1.3 billion for FEMA community disaster grants, $707 million for critical infrastructure cybersecurity, $52 million for airport and transportation security, $40 million for chemical and biological threat protection, $53 million for homeland security operations.
Next, $4.2 billion for EV charging, $372 million for rural airline service, $145 million for sustainable infrastructure, $204 million for underserved communities, $1.4 billion for IRS services and enforcement, $100 million for air pollution reduction, $1 billion for EPA state grants, plus $2.5 billion for drinking water and wastewater systems.
We then have $90 million for diesel pollution cuts, $3.4 billion for NASA space and earth science, $297 million for NASA technology programs, $1.1 billion for ISS operations, $143 million for STEM education, $309 million for small-business development, $170 million for SBA operations, and $158 million in small-business loans.
Yesterday, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116346686438015338" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">posted</a> on Truth that:- “Not only were the jobs numbers GREAT yesterday, 178,000 new jobs, but the TRADE DEFICIT was down 55%, the biggest drop in history. THANK YOU MR. TARIFF! All of this and, simultaneously, getting rid of a Nuclear Iran.”
While the Center for American Progress (CAP) <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/volatile-job-numbers-mask-stagnant-labor-market-in-the-trump-administrations-economy-analysis-of-the-march-2026-jobs-report/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a>, “Given that the Trump administration has insisted on replacing one set of tariffs after being blocked by a U.S. Supreme Court decision—and the administration has sown further chaos for the economy with its war on Iran—it is likely that the pain for workers will continue.”
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