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• The Wall Street Journal : “The U.S. job market blew past expectations again in April, buoyed by gains across industries including retail, transportation and warehousing, and healthcare, a sign that the labor market remained resilient in the face of the Iran war.”
• Bloomberg Economics Chief U.S. Economist Anna Wong : “April hiring was surprisingly robust… The most interesting detail in April’s jobs report is from the area that powered more than half the month’s job gains: the freight sector. That confirms the improvement flagged by recent strong readings in PMIs and regional Fed manufacturing surveys: A strong recovery may be underway in the industrial sector.”
• Politico : “President Donald Trump’s labor market is bouncing back.”
• The New York Times reporter Tony Romm : “The jobs report gives President Trump a favorable data point to tout.”
• Economist Steve Moore : “This is a real tribute to a lot of Trump policies… The buzzword for today is ‘resilience’”
• Northlight Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Chris Zaccarelli : “The economy is so much better than what the doom crew has been saying… The labor market is adding jobs, GDP is growing and corporate profits are expanding at a rapid pace.”
• Lombard Odier Investment Managers Head of Macro Research Florian Ielpo : “What is not to like? It is better than expected without being too strong, and it does not look directly inflationary.”
• CNBC anchor Rick Santelli : “We are much stronger… These are good numbers.”
• Fox Business Network anchor Cheryl Casone : “We got a much better than expected jobs report for the month of April. 115,000 jobs is the nonfarm number. The expectation was 62,000. Again, a strong print for the U.S. jobs picture.”
• Citizens Bank Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Markets Eric Merlis : “The April jobs report is a clear upside surprise… Importantly, the data suggests the hostilities in the Middle East have had little visible impact on the U.S. job market.”
• Navy Federal Credit Union Chief Economist Heather Long : “Good news. The US economy added a strong 115,000 jobs in April (and March was revised higher to 185,000!) The unemployment rate stayed at 4.3%. Hiring was strong in healthcare (about 1/3 of job gains in April), retail and transportation/warehouse.”
• Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz : “Small businesses are really the generators of job creation and never has been more the truth than that than this particular week and this particular year under this Administration and under the leadership of Kelly Loeffler, small businesses are leading the charge here.”
• CNN’s Matt Egan : “This was a big beat for the job market…The U.S. economy adding 115,000 jobs in April that’s almost twice as much as the consensus from economists.”
• The New York Times reporter Lydia DePillis : “That’s another surprisingly good showing, up about twice what economists expected.”
Distributed on May 8th, 2026.
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2052769491575091418