Typically, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its employment numbers for the previous month on the first Friday of the current month, but because of the recent government shutdown, the numbers for September have only just now been released more than a month and a half after the normal date.

The belated September jobs report was worth the wait for President Donald Trump, though, as it showed that the estimated 119,000 new jobs had more than doubled the expectations of economists and experts, according to Breitbart.

Unfortunately, however, and also because of the recently concluded shutdown, the numbers for October will likely never be known, since the relevant information was never collected by the furloughed bureaucrats, while the release of November's figures will likely be delayed until mid- or late-December.

Better-than-expected report emerges

According to the Department of Labor, around 119,000 new jobs were added to the U.S. economy in September, far surpassing the 50,000 new jobs estimate of economists for that period.

That growth came across multiple sectors of the economy, as tens of thousands of new jobs were created in the service industries, retail, healthcare, and construction, to name just a few. In other good news, one of the few sectors to actually lose jobs was the federal workforce, which has shed nearly 100,000 jobs since January.

At the same time, the report highlighted modest growth in average hourly wages, which was sufficient to push the rolling 12-month average for wage growth up to around 3.8%, surpassing the average inflation rate that has been reduced under President Trump to approximately 3.0%.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate ticked up slightly from 4.3% to 4.4%, which, counterintuitively, is actually a good sign for the economy, as it means that more out-of-work Americans are attempting to rejoin the labor force.

The only real bad news in the report, aside from job losses in the stalled-out manufacturing sector, was the downward revisions of July and August's jobs numbers by a combined 33,000, as there were 7,000 and 26,000 fewer jobs added, respectively, than were initially reported.

Democrats faulted for delay

In a Thursday news release, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer touted the better-than-expected jobs report for September, and said, "Driven by impressive gains in private sector payrolls, our economy added 119,000 jobs in September -- more than doubling expectations."

"We should’ve had this positive report seven weeks ago, but Democrats chose to play political games and shut down the government," she continued. "Despite their constant efforts to undermine President Trump, he is building an economy that is firing on all cylinders. Job and yearly wage growth blew past expectations, more Americans are entering the workforce, and long-term unemployment is down."

"This report reflects an economy that was running strong going into the shutdown, proving this Administration’s America First policies are incredibly effective when Washington isn’t paralyzed by the Democrats’ noise," the secretary added. "We expect this momentum to continue as the President’s full economic agenda takes effect, including the historic tax relief provided by the Working Family Tax Cuts and the trillions of dollars President Trump has secured to reindustrialize our nation."

American jobs for American workers

Also heralding the positive September jobs numbers on Thursday, according to a separate report from Breitbart, was Vice President JD Vance, who pointed out that nearly all of the job growth came in the private sector for native-born American citizens, rather than imported foreign-born workers -- a sharp contrast to the typical situation under the prior Biden administration.

"And what happened under the Biden administration is, to the extent there was any job growth at all, if you looked at the data, almost all of the net job creation in the United States under the Biden administration went to the foreign-born," Vance said. "Now, of course, some of those people are illegal immigrants to the United States, but that means that a lot of the job creation was actually going to illegal aliens who shouldn’t have been in our country."

The vice president added, "The best thing that you can say about the Trump economy is that American jobs are going to American workers for a change, and that’s the thing that I’m proudest about with these numbers."