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Sonderling Cites 162,000 New Jobs and One Million Private-Sector Jobs on Fox's Big Weekend Show

September 14, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:07:09

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What happened

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling told Fox’s Big Weekend Show that employers had added 162,000 jobs, roughly triple the 50,000 to 55,000 economists had expected, according to the Department of Labor’s upload of the appearance. He said the report pushed the second Trump administration past one million new private-sector jobs and put federal employment at its lowest level since 1966.

Sonderling said 700,000 people had entered the labor force in the previous month and pointed to where he said jobs were being created: 100,000 new construction jobs tied to factory building and 58,000 new manufacturing jobs. He framed the figures as the return of high-skill, high-wage production work the President had promised to bring back.

The panel also played President Trump’s announcement of a program allowing cattle ranchers to sell directly to consumers, with country-of-origin labeling for foreign beef, alongside a possible temporary suspension of tariffs on foreign beef. Sonderling, who said he had stood with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, the President and ranchers in the Oval Office for the announcement, said the executive order and Rollins’s actions would help ranchers after what he described as the loss of seven million cattle during the previous administration.

Why it matters

The appearance is the Labor Department’s Labor Day message in one segment: a stronger-than-expected jobs report, a manufacturing-and-construction composition argument, and a shrinking federal workforce presented as twin promises kept, as Sonderling stated them.

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Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling on The Big Weekend Show (FOX)”, 2026-09-14 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-09-14). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.