The number of native-born Americans aged 16 and over increased between July 2024, under the Biden administration<\/a>, and July 2025 by 1,998,000, an increase of 1.52 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n The total number of native-born Americans holding jobs in July was 133,035,000 as compared to 131,037,000\u00a0for the same month in 2024. This is further up from 131,037,000 in June, a difference of 383,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n Simultaneously, the number of foreign-born individuals 16 and over holding jobs in the U.S. decreased by nearly half a million, 452,000, from July 2024 to the same month in 2025. The number of foreign-born jobs in the U.S. in July was 32,066,000, down from 32,518,000 in the same month last year, a 1.39 percent decrease.\u00a0<\/p>\n US JOB GROWTH COOLED IN JULY AMID GROWING ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY<\/a><\/p>\n Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer speaks during a House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing on Capitol Hill on June 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n Notably, however, BLS data indicates there were 54,000 more foreign-born jobs in June than there were in July 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n In July, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer<\/a> said on Fox & Friends First that “the promises made the president were that he was going to pay attention to the American worker, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re seeing American-born jobs be increased.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “Under President Biden,” Chavez-DeRemer went on, “50 percent of those jobs went to foreign workers.”<\/p>\n “That\u2019s not a promise the president made to the American people. He said. \u2018I\u2019m going to focus on you,\u2019” she said. “Every decision that the Department of Labor makes and every decision in conjunction with this administration puts the American worker at the pinnacle of every decision, and that\u2019s what is important for them to know, that they\u2019re being put first.” \u00a0<\/p>\n TRUMP ORDERS TERMINATION OF LABOR STATISTICS OFFICIAL AFTER JOBS REPORT AND DOWNWARD REVISIONS<\/a><\/p>\n Asked to respond to Democratic assertions that foreign workers are needed to fill jobs that Americans will not do, Chavez-DeRemer said, “We see it in the numbers. Americans are willing to do the job. That\u2019s what we\u2019re out there to do. What we have to give them is the opportunity to have those jobs.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Still, President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0on Friday lashed out at the BLS and said he will fire its labor statistics chief after the U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in July and large downward revisions were made in the prior two months, which suggests the economy and labor market are weaker than previously believed.<\/p>\n AMERICAN INGENUITY IS FINALLY BEING CELEBRATED AGAIN IN WASHINGTON, PORTFOLIO MANAGER ARGUES<\/a><\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the U.S. Steel-Irvin Works on May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. President Trump visits the steel factory after greenlighting the long-proposed merger between U.S. Steel and (Jeff Swensen\/Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Chavez-DeRemer\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lori-chavez-deremer.png\")
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