WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The House Ways & Means Committee Chairman issued the following news release:

Labor market surpasses expectations, creating 172,000 new jobs and estimates for March and April revised upward by 93,000 new jobs.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Bureauof Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report for May 2026, showing American businesses created 172,000 new jobs:

"By focusing on the needs of Main Street job creators and the workers they employ, the Working Families Tax Cuts made it better and easier in hire, build, and invest in America. Private businesses are driving job growth.Manufacturing not only created 7,000 jobs this month, but ...