White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary Bessent provided an update on Tuesday. The White House says President Trump has created 345,000 jobs. President Trump's team shared the following statement: "President Trump has created 345,000 jobs since taking office in January.

• 188,000 (54%) of these were in non-government and government-adjacent sectors. This is a dramatic improvement from the last two years of the Biden Administration, when three-fourths of all new jobs were in government or government-adjacent sectors. 2,000 of which were mining and logging jobs. 27,000 of which were construction jobs. 9,000 manufacturing jobs were created (compared to the 6,000 manufacturing jobs lost per month from Jan 2023 to Dec 2024).
• At the same time that there were large private sector job gains, 15,000 federal government jobs were cut.