Manufacturing employment has been falling since April, and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024. The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies, which are projected to cost American households
annually. Since President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025, overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000, while job openings and hires have fallen by
and
, respectively. Despite Trump’s
that his policies will reignite the manufacturing industry in the United States, his policies have achieved the opposite.