Federal employment in Dec 2025 is about what it was in 2014 under Obama, despite 277,000 employees sent packing since January 2025

 Trump has cut the federal workforce by about 9.2%, but federal employment has actually grown a little since October. Year over year in December federal employment is down 274,000.

Year over year in December local government employment in the United States has grown by 170,000, while state government employment nationwide is down 45,000. 

The three categories yield a net cut in government employment at all levels nationwide year over year of 149,000.

 

 

Donald Trump has so far done nothing to boost manufacturing employment, which is down 208,000 since Feb 2023 through Dec 2025

Trump's peak average was 12.779 million manufacturing employees in 2019.

We're at 12.732 million on average in 2025.

The 2023 average was 12.873 million, the post-Great Recession peak.

 

The unemployment LEVEL has come down since the summer, but is still higher in Dec 2025 than it was when Trump was elected in November 2024, by 295,000

 

Foreign born employment ROSE in December 2025, by 310,000

 

More people than ever are NOT in the labor force under Donald Trump in Dec 2025, 104.094 million, worse than COVID!, and 37.57% on average in 2025 were eating but not working

The Rush Limbaugh-Donald Trump Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate Dec 2025 spiked to 37.87%

The unemployment rate in 2025 averaged 4.26% for 11 months of data even as initial claims for unemployment averaged an historically low, if not the lowest, 224k per week

The low but rising unemployment rate on a monthly basis since 2023 seems out of whack with a relatively flat initial claims average on an annual basis since 2021.

 

Just 49.02% had a full time job in December 2025

 The October data remains missing, so the average for 11 months of 2025 comes in at 49.3%, down from 49.65% in 2024.

Full time has been trending lower on a monthly basis since the recent period peak in Jun 2023 at 50.92%