You’re Fired! The REAL Reason Behind the Job Revisions and Why the BLS Commissioner Should NOT be Blamed
“For the FOURTH month in a row, jobs numbers have beat market expectations with nearly 150,000 good jobs created in June. American-born workers have accounted for ALL of the job gains since President Trump took office and wages continue to rise.”
— White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, July 3rd, 2025
“In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”
— President Donald Trump, August 1st, 2025
What a difference a month makes. Strong leaders share the credit and accept the blame. Weak leaders take all the credit and lay the blame on others.
Talk about a classic case of shooting the messenger. If you don’t trust the nonfarm payroll data, then just go to the companion Household Survey, which showed a huge -260k jobs decline in July and is down -402k since the end of the first quarter (in the aftermath of all the tariff-related uncertainty, if you are seeking out a culprit). And with no revisions to blame, either. What a sham. We are on a slippery slope, folks.
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