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Acting Secretary Sonderling Discusses the June Jobs Report on National Report

September 14, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:03:56

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What happened

On the program National Report, the hosts noted that 57,000 jobs were added in the month covered by the June report — less than the 100,000 expected and down from 129,000 in May — and introduced Keith Sonderling as acting Secretary of Labor who had been nominated by President Trump to serve in the role permanently, as the broadcast stated it. Sonderling said the report shows the continued strength of President Trump’s economy, citing 57,000 new jobs and, as he stated it, an average of 88,000 new private-sector jobs each month so far this year, with continued growth in manufacturing and in construction for manufacturing plants — the reshoring and reindustrialization the President promised, according to his remarks.

Asked why the number was smaller than expected and declining, Sonderling said growth was continuing and pointed, as he stated it, to $5 billion in new investments into the United States in the prior month and to companies hiring and investing in infrastructure for private-sector rather than government jobs. He said workers are taking home more pay thanks to the working families tax cuts — no tax on tips and no tax on overtime — as the one-year anniversary of that legislation approached, and that its business depreciation provisions were driving reinvestment, according to his remarks.

Sonderling said he had joined the President in Pennsylvania the prior week and cited Mack Trucks building more trucks and reinvesting in its workforce, and Harley-Davidson bringing manufacturing back to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from overseas, as examples of the investment pattern he expects to produce more jobs as it comes online, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The interview is the Labor Department’s contemporaneous reading of a soft headline jobs number: the acting secretary’s case rests on private-sector composition, reshoring investment and take-home-pay effects of the tax law rather than on the monthly total itself, as he framed it.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Sonderling discusses the June jobs report on National Report”, 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.