The Trump administration this week blasted the Labor Department’s annual revisions, which revealed the U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs than initially reported — the largest correction on record.
The adjustment was for the period between April 2024 and March 2025.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ adjustment, which landed on the higher end of Wall Street expectations, comes as President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and boost the economy.
“Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“This is exactly why we need new leadership to restore trust and confidence in the BLS’s data on behalf of the financial markets, businesses, policymakers, and families that rely on this data to make major decisions,” Leavitt said, adding that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell “has officially run out of excuses and must cut the rates now.”
“Considering these reports are the foundation of economic forecasts and major policy decisions, there is no room for such a significant and consistent amount of error. It’s imperative for the data to remain accurate, impartial, and never altered for political gain,” wrote Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“The Trump administration is putting a stop to years of neglect. We are committed to finding solutions to these problems, including by modernizing to improve transparency and deliver more accurate and timely data for American businesses and workers,” she added.
Ahead of the BLS data release, Trump took to Truth Social to call the Federal Reserve “broken” and criticize its reliance on outdated indicators.
“If the Fed had followed what we published, they would have raised rates in early 2021. The entire organization is broken. It needs to be fixed. They need to use modern sources of information,” Trump wrote.
“It’s too low, it’s too rigid, they followed data that’s years delayed. They don’t believe that money supply matters, it’s like the Pope not believing in Jesus,” he added.
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— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 9, 2025
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