The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released nationwide job numbers for December 2025. According to the report, employment is the weakest it’s been since the recession of 2020. 

Employers only added 50,000 jobs to the economy, performing below expectations for another month. BLS also released a revision to job numbers for October and November 2025, revealing there were 76,000 fewer jobs than previously reported. Losses were notable in manufacturing, which, seasonally adjusted, lost a total of 68,000 jobs over the course of the year. 

Following the announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh: 

“President Donald Trump continues to lie to the American people and claim he’s fixing the economy, but working people can plainly see they are hurting more under his leadership. We were on a path to revitalizing our manufacturing sector, but Trump and his allies in Congress have squandered that opportunity with his ideological attacks on the clean energy and technology sectors. Now, the job market is stagnating because Trump’s true goal is to make himself and his fellow billionaires richer, workers be damned.”