A new jobs report, delayed by the Democrats’ decision to shut down the U.S. government for six weeks, now shows that there were more jobs created in September than expected.

And Vice President JD Vance, in an interview, confirms it is Americans who are being helped by the economy under President Donald Trump.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 119,000 jobs in the month, and unemployment nudged up one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.4%.

Forecasters had expected maybe 55,000 new jobs.

“This jobs report confirms that you have the number of manufacturing hours worked in the economy is actually going up. You see, the private sector is really driving this economic growth and is driving the job creation. And this is really important, I know to you, Matt, but really to me, and it’s that we are seeing the job growth go to native-born American citizens,” Vance explained in an interview with Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle.”

During the Joe Biden administration, jobs were going to foreigners, he explained.

“And what happened under the Biden administration is to the extent there was any job growth at all. If you looked at the data, almost all of the net job creation in the United States under the Biden administration went to the foreign-born,” he said. “Now, of course, some of those people are illegal immigrants to the United States, but that means that a lot of the job creation was actually going to illegal aliens who shouldn’t have been in our country.”

The Washington Examiner said Dan North, an economist with Allianz Trade Americas, confirmed the unemployment numbers remain a concern.

Further, the report noted a concern for the looming October report as it may show job losses, in part because of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program for federal workers.

Additionally, other questions remain because of the president’s immigration policies, which have deterred the mass in-migration that Joe Biden promoted.

The report said federal employment is down by about 97,000 since Trump took office less than a year ago.

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