Trump Official Panics as Brutal Jobs Report Blames Trump’s Tariffs

Photo: Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office during his swearing-in ceremony as the U.S. Commerce Secretary – February 21, 2025. Photo credit: The White House via Flickr. US government work. Article by Hafiz Rashid. The New Republic – December 3, 2025.

The ADP private-sector jobs report shows the Trump administration is crippling small businesses.

It turns out that Donald Trump’s tariffs aren’t good for private-sector jobs. A new report from payroll processor ADP found that private employees lost nearly 32,000 jobs in November, far off analyst projections that they would add 10,000 jobs. The data is a sharp decline from October, when businesses overall added 47,000 jobs, according to the ADP’s revised estimate. […]

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