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Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling Discusses October Jobs Report on Fox News

November 6, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:01:18

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What happened

Fox News reported what it described as a very large October jobs report: 165,000 jobs provided, unemployment at 4.1%, and upward revisions of 84,000 jobs for August and September combined, as the broadcast stated. The report quoted White House spokesman Matt Middleton citing President Trump: the president’s mission, he said, remains lowering costs, creating jobs, strengthening the economy, and putting American workers first, according to the broadcast.

Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling, interviewed that morning, said the 4.1% unemployment rate told him that people who want jobs are getting them and that more people are entering the labor market, as he stated it. Asked what the report signaled for the end of the year and the start of the next, Sonderling said job numbers would continue to beat expectations and that the economy would create new high-wage, high-skill private-sector jobs, according to the interview.

The broadcast also noted that manufacturing had been gaining jobs since the previous June, including 19,000 jobs in September, which it attributed to investments announced the year before. Sonderling said the last two years of the Biden administration lost more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs and that the trend was now reversing, because companies want to make their products in America with American workers, as he put it.

Why it matters

The October report is the administration’s headline labor-market evidence for its economic program, and Sonderling’s reading of it — rising labor-force entry and a manufacturing reversal — is the Labor Department’s stated interpretation of the data.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the figures Sonderling cited — 165,000 jobs added, 4.1% unemployment, and 84,000 in upward August–September revisions, as stated in the broadcast — are dated, checkable claims against the official jobs data.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Keith Sonderling joins Fox News to discuss October jobs report”, 2026-11-06 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-11-06). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.