The Trump Administration will launch a damning report detailing the ‘shortcomings’ of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after President Trump fired the Biden-appointed commissioner, based on The Wall Road Journal.
Final month, President Trump fired the Biden-appointed Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after she ‘faked’ the roles numbers earlier than the 2024 election to attempt to increase Kamala Harris’s probabilities of a victory.
Dr. Erika McEntarfer was promptly fired after an abysmal July jobs report. The US solely added 73,000 jobs in July, and the earlier months have been all revised down.
“Nonfarm payrolls progress totaled 73,000 for July, above the June complete of 14,000 however beneath even the meager Dow Jones estimate for a achieve of 100,000,” CNBC reported.
“June and Might totals have been revised sharply decrease, down by a mixed 258,000 from beforehand introduced ranges,” the outlet reported.
Trump beforehand accused McEntarfer of rigging in the present day’s jobs numbers in an effort to make him look unhealthy.
“For my part, in the present day’s Jobs Numbers have been RIGGED in an effort to make the Republicans, and ME, look unhealthy — Similar to after they had three nice days across the 2024 Presidential Election, after which, these numbers have been “taken away” on November 15, 2024, proper after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers have been massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is not any higher! However, the excellent news is, our Nation is doing GREAT!” Trump mentioned final month.
President Trump later introduced he nominated conservative economist Dr. E.J. Antoni as the subsequent Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner.
In keeping with The Wall Road Journal, the Trump Administration is getting ready a report on the BLS’s shortcomings and will launch it within the subsequent few weeks.
The Wall Road Journal reported:
5 weeks after President Trump fired the chief of the company that gathers the nation’s labor and worth information, his advisers are getting ready a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs information, based on individuals acquainted with the matter.
The report takes a crucial take a look at the BLS and lays out a historic overview of the company’s jobs-data revisions, they mentioned.
The administration is contemplating publishing the examine, written by the Council of Financial Advisers, within the coming weeks, based on these individuals.
It comes amid an unprecedented stage of criticism by a presidential administration at what is often seen because the routine, nonpartisan job of compiling essential U.S. financial information.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been cooking the books the entire time and mendacity to the American individuals.
Final August, shortly earlier than the presidential election, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did an enormous downward revision of jobs AGAIN by as much as 1 MILLION!
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 interval by as much as 1 million. Which means all “beats” recorded up to now yr can have been misses and the US job market is in far worse form than the admin would admit.
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 18, 2024
In keeping with Bloomberg, payrolls progress between April 2023 to March 2024 was as much as 1 million weaker than beforehand reported.
