\u201cThe job report\u2019s going to come out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly from what a monthly job number should look like,\u201d White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro said Tuesday on Fox Business\u2019s Mornings with Maria. <\/a><\/p>\n Navarro said people should expect job growth in the 50,000 monthly range \u2014 as opposed to the six-figure range consistently met when former President Joe Biden was in office.<\/p>\n He then claimed, without providing evidence, that the significant job growth under Biden was due to illegal immigrants taking jobs from Americans, who were left filing for unemployment as a result. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen we were letting in 2 million illegal aliens\u2026We had to produce 200,000 jobs a month for a steady state. And by the way, all of the jobs we were creating in Biden years were going to illegals. Americans were going to the unemployment lines,\u201d Navarro claimed. \u201cThat\u2019s totally reversed, and now 50,000 a month is going to be more like what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Peter Navarro says the Trump administration\u2019s poor jobs numbers are because the administration has deported so many people (Fox Business)<\/p>\n While the number of unauthorized immigrants entering the U.S. reached an all-time high of 14 million in 2023,<\/a> when Biden was president, there is no way of tracking how many newly created jobs went to workers who are unauthorized to be in the U.S. <\/p>\n \u201cSo, Wall Street, when this stuff comes out, they can\u2019t rain on that parade. They have to adjust for the fact that we\u2019re deporting millions of illegals out of our job market,\u201d Navarro said. <\/p>\n However, Navarro\u2019s math doesn\u2019t quite add up. About 393,000 immigrants have been arrested since Trump returned to office last year, according to a CBS News report. <\/a><\/p>\n Navarro\u2019s claims also ignore the fact that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a four-year high<\/a> of 4.6 percent. <\/p>\n The Fox host seemed eager to agree with Navarro\u2019s claims, but noted that it sounded like Navarro was expecting a \u201cweak number\u201d with the release of the jobs report Wednesday. <\/p>\n \u201cNo,\u201d Navarro replied. \u201cNot expecting a weak number. I\u2019m just saying that going forward, when we see a number under 100,000, we don\u2019t wring our hands. We say, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s going to be a steady state.\u2019 So it\u2019s all good, Maria.\u201d <\/p>\n Navarro echoed a narrative pushed by White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Navarro said Wall Street needs to adjust for the \u201cmillions\u201d of illegal immigrants being deported out of the current U.S. job market (Getty Images)<\/p>\n In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Hassett said the combination of strong GDP growth and a significant decrease in the workforce \u201cbecause of illegals leaving the country,\u201d could result in lower job numbers.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that you should expect slightly smaller job numbers that are consistent with high GDP growth right now,\u201d Hassett said. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd that one shouldn\u2019t panic if you see a sequence of numbers that are lower than you\u2019re used to, because, again, population growth is going down and productivity growth is skyrocketing. It\u2019s an unusual set of circumstances.\u201d <\/p>\n Trump said he is \u201cvery proud\u201d of the U.S. economy during an interview that aired during Super Bowl LX Sunday. <\/p>\n However, a recent survey found that nine out of 10 U.S. citizens believe the country is caught up in an inflation crisis<\/a>, with eight in 10 saying they felt the cost of consumer goods had become more expensive since Trump took office. <\/p>\n![\"Peter](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Navarro-on-Fox-Business.png\")
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