Donald Trump’s return to the White House isn’t just symbolic—it’s showing up on paychecks. On Friday’s episode of The Alex Marlow Show, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and economics editor John Carney broke down the dramatic shift in the U.S. labor market, where job growth is finally going where it belongs: to native-born Americans.

Carney didn’t mince words about how things used to be. “It was one of these perverse things that was going on in the Biden administration,” he said, describing how the previous administration would trumpet glowing job numbers—only for the data to reveal that those gains were overwhelmingly going to foreign-born workers, not American citizens.

But now, Carney said, “Donald Trump has turned that around. All of the net job gains this year have gone to Americans.”

That’s a seismic shift. For years, under Joe Biden, American workers found themselves competing with an ever-expanding labor pool—often filled with recent migrants. Employers had no incentive to offer better wages when they could rely on a constant influx of low-cost labor. “Businesses believed that they could just import new workers,” Carney explained. “They didn’t give people raises because they had more workers in the pipeline.”

But now that pipeline is drying up—and American workers are finally back in the driver’s seat.

“When you’re adding up all the people who gained and all the people who lost, the net increase in jobs is going to Americans,” Carney noted. More specifically, he emphasized that it’s not just going to legal residents, but to native-born U.S. citizens—something he said is “fundamentally who the country is supposed to work for.”

This change is already yielding big results. With businesses no longer able to rely on cheap imported labor, they’re being forced to compete for American talent—and that means real wage growth. “They have to start bidding against each other,” Carney said. “Basically a competitive bidding war for American workers. And that’s what we’re seeing.”

The effect is measurable. For the first time in years, wage growth is outpacing inflation—another sharp reversal from the Biden era. Under Biden, Americans consistently lost ground, with rising prices eating away at stagnant paychecks. Now, wages are finally gaining faster than the cost of living.

“These are not disconnected phenomena,” Carney stressed. “Wage gains are better than inflation because jobs are going to Americans.”

It’s a welcome return to economic nationalism, and a vindication of Trump’s America First labor policy. With legal and illegal immigration throttled, and border enforcement stepped up, the playing field is leveling for native-born workers who felt left behind in recent years.

This trend doesn’t just signal economic recovery—it represents a philosophical shift. Trump’s policies are making it clear that the American economy should first and foremost serve American citizens. It’s a message that resonates deeply with voters frustrated by globalism, open-border policies, and decades of wage stagnation.

As Carney summed it up, “It is working for them again, for us again.”

And that’s a narrative no one can spin away.