President Donald Trump is sticking with his tariffs, despite new data published Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that the country added roughly 1 million fewer jobs than previously reported over the past year.

Under former President Joe Biden, and even during the early months of the second Trump administration, government officials pointed to a strong American labor market as the single greatest indicator that inflation and middling economic growth were not driving the country into a recession.

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