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Sonderling Marks Labor Day With Jobs Report Claims on Newsmax

September 9, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:05:19

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What happened

Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling told Newsmax that August payrolls rose by 162,000, well above the roughly 56,000 expected, with unemployment at 4.1 percent, according to the Department of Labor’s upload of the interview. He said the report carried the President’s second term past one million new private-sector jobs, which he described as the high-wage, high-skill private jobs the President had promised.

Sonderling said June and July figures had been revised upward by a combined 55,000 and argued that economists who kept underestimating the reports were, in his words, doubting the American worker. He cited 100,000 new construction jobs building manufacturing plants and 58,000 new manufacturing jobs this year, said a manufacturing index had risen for eight straight months, and noted that federal government employment stood at its lowest level since 1966 — the second half, he said, of the President’s promise to right-size the federal government.

Speaking from Toledo, Ohio, Sonderling said billions in investment were arriving in northwest Ohio and across the country. Asked about anxiety over artificial intelligence and data centers, he said data centers create skilled-trades jobs for American workers.

Why it matters

The Newsmax segment repeats the Labor Department’s core second-term labor claims — private-sector growth, manufacturing revival and a smaller federal workforce — in the department’s own Labor Day framing, as Sonderling presented it.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Keith Sondering remarks on labor day for NEWSMAX”, 2026-09-09 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-09-09). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.