Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling his shot on the June jobs report before the numbers are even official. He expects the data to come in “very strong,” though he admits he hasn’t actually seen the final figures yet.
The numbers backing the optimism
Over the two months leading into June, the US economy added 313,000 net new private-sector jobs.
Within that total, 13,000 were manufacturing jobs.
The May 2026 jobs report, the most recent official data available, showed 139,000 jobs added with the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.2%.
