The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoffs last month, new data showed Thursday.

Private sector job creation slowed to a crawl in February, fueling concerns of an economic slowdown, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday.

U.S. private payrolls growth slowed sharply in February, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Wednesday. Private payrolls increased by only 77,000 jobs last month after an upwardly revised 186,

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The forecast for the forthcoming BLS report is that 156,000 jobs were added in February. The ADP employment report revealed that 77,000 nonfarm private jobs were added in February, the fewest amount since July.