Overview

• Revisions leave only about 107,000 jobs created over the past four months, a pace commentators note is among the weakest outside recessions in decades.
• Manufacturing shed 12,000 jobs in August, with analyses reporting a 42,000 decline since the tariff rollout and a Dallas Fed survey finding most factories say tariffs hurt business.
• The administration has asked the Supreme Court to swiftly take up lower‑court rulings against the tariff program, which remains in effect pending review.
• Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force votes to roll back the tariffs following the disappointing report.
• The slowdown follows Trump’s firing of the BLS commissioner after prior revisions, while a recent inflation uptick limits how much the Federal Reserve can cushion a weakening labor market.