Trump campaign knocks Harris economy as unemployment remains above 4%

The Trump campaign excoriated the Biden-Harris administration's stewardship of the economy in the wake of the September jobs report and cast doubt on the veracity of federal economic data.

The Department of Labor on Friday reported that the U.S. economy exceeded job growth projections and added 254,000 jobs in September. Unemployment dropped to 4.1%.

But the Trump campaign looked at the jobs data from a different angle.

“Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have built back broke, losing 34,000 manufacturing jobs in just the past two months as foreign countries benefit from Harris’ weak economic policies, and Harris’ open border policies have destroyed 825,000 jobs for native-born Americans while 1.2 million foreign-born workers gained employment," Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

She further cast doubt on the actual job figures, saying "Harris already lied about creating 818,000 jobs and has destroyed the livelihoods of working class Americans who are paying 20 percent more for everything thanks to her tax-and-spend policies, but President Trump has a plan to make America the manufacturing superpower of world and protect American jobs here at home," she added.

In August of this year, the federal government revised its jobs growth numbers, slashing more than 800,000 jobs from its figures from April 2023 to March 2024.