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Sonderling Hails May Jobs Report and Upward Revisions on Fox Business

September 14, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:08:05

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What happened

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling joined Fox Business to discuss the May jobs report, in a segment the Labor Department dated to its June 5, 2026 airing. Fox’s reporting, as presented in the segment, said the report beat expectations, the unemployment rate was unchanged, and March and April payroll figures were revised up by a combined 93,000 jobs, with construction adding 17,000 jobs and manufacturing up 7,000 in May.

Sonderling called it, as he stated it, the best jobs report of Trump’s second administration, saying the reports continue to demolish expectations. He cited, as he stated them, 172,000 jobs added against a Bloomberg survey consensus of about 85,000, and said the prior month likewise doubled expectations, with revisions tripling the initial figure.

Asked what he credited for the strength, Sonderling pointed, as he stated it, to the working families tax cuts putting more money in workers’ pockets — including no tax on tips and no tax on overtime — and to businesses reinvesting. He also credited President Trump’s commitment to bringing manufacturing back, citing foreign and domestic investment commitments including, as he stated it, another two billion dollars committed by Toyota.

Why it matters

The appearance bears directly on the administration’s economic record — jobs, trade, and taxes — and its stated figures are the claims against which outcomes will be compared.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Sonderling discusses May jobs report with FOX business”, 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.