CNN was forced to concede Friday that the April jobs report, under President Donald Trump’s leadership, came in stronger than expected.
This concession came as CNN and other outlets have been reporting that Trump’s tariff policies are leading the U.S. economy into a crisis.
CNN business correspondent Matt Egan responded to Friday’s jobs numbers, saying, “We were bracing for a slowdown in the jobs market. We did not get that. We got steady hiring. This jobs market is just relentless.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 177,000 jobs were added in April, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.2 percent.
Egan noted that figure easily topped the 135,000 economists had expected.
The reporter further pointed out it was just slightly off the 185,000 jobs created in March.
“So you can see that there really isn’t all that much of a change here, and these are still very solid numbers,” Egan said.
“One place where we saw a loss of jobs again was the federal government, as the DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] cuts to the workforce continue,” he added.
CNN’s Matt Egan on 177,000 jobs created in April:
“We were bracing for a slowdown in the