Labor Day, 2025

Proclamation 10968 of August 28, 2025

Labor Day, 2025

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

From the earliest days of our American story, our
Nation's future has been molded by the skill,
determination, and unwavering resilience of the
American worker. From the earliest settlers, who laid
the foundations of a new Nation to the innovators who
built our railroads, steel mills, and skyscrapers,
America's greatness has always rested in the strength
of its workforce. This Labor Day, we honor the proud
legacy of America's workforce--and we pay tribute to
the unbreakable spirit that keeps it strong nearly 250
years later.

The American worker is the beating heart of our
economy, the foundation of our strength, and the living
embodiment of the American Dream. In every honest
citizen lives the instinct to work, build, and create--
an instinct seen in the welder, the nurse, the trucker,
the farmer, and the machinist. Every job, every shift,
every hour worked by millions of talented patriots
today adds another stone to the foundation of our
prosperity.

Tragically, in recent decades, a corrupt political
class allowed our manufacturing base to decline. Our
jobs were shipped to distant shores, our industries
decimated, and our communities weakened, all while
building up foreign competitors at the expense of
American workers and families.

Those days ended on January 20, 2025. Every day, my
Administration is restoring the dignity of labor and
putting the American worker first. We are making it
easier to buy American and hire American, breathing new
life into our manufacturing cities, and securing fair
trade deals that protect our jobs and reward our
productivity. We are amassing hundreds of billions of
dollars in tariff revenue and ensuring that every
product of American craftsmanship is appreciated for
its true value in overseas markets. Under my
leadership, we are bringing jobs back to America--and
those jobs are going to American-born workers.

From our heartland to our great coastal cities, once-
forgotten communities are stirring with new
opportunity. Workers are keeping more of what they
earn, and new jobs are being created at a record pace.
As President, I will always defend the interests of
every citizen who works with integrity, honors the rule
of law, and strives to secure a brighter future for
themselves, their families, and future generations of
Americans.

This Labor Day, we renew our pledge to protect American
jobs and defend the dignity of American labor--and we
proudly acknowledge the vital role that our workers
play in our past, present, and glorious American
future.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim September 1, 2025, as
Labor Day. I call upon all public officials and people
of the United States to observe this day with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that
honor the contributions and resilience of working
Americans.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and
fiftieth.