US manufacturing sees job losses despite Trump’s revival hopes

Mixed economic data puts Trump’s domestic agenda at risk – UK Times

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email President Donald Trump received some rosy news on Friday morning when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report showing that the U.S. economy added 177,000 jobs in April. This came the month that Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs, which he eventually …

US manufacturing sees job losses despite Trump’s revival hopes

US manufacturing suffered 1,000 job losses in April in a blow to President Trump’s hopes to drive up employment in the sector.  Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs set out to cut the country’s goods deficit as he looked to protectionist measures to revive the country’s stuttering manufacturing sector.  But new data showed no immediate improvement to the sector after tariffs were slapped on the likes of China and Canada. The US Bureau of Labor Stati…