His solution is to fire the person who produced the data. I won’t trust any future BLS once Trump puts a flunky in the job.
Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market.Claiming without evidence the data were “rigged”So he fired the Senate-confirmed Department of Labor official responsible for pulling together the numbers each month.www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b…
— Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine (@papootx.bsky.social) 2025-08-02T00:06:53.381Z
Good roundup of the reactions.
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman.bsky.social) 2025-08-02T03:18:05.810Z
You're going to hear a lot from the MAGA crowd about how the BLS "manipulated" jobs numbers. It's a lie, and it's important to understand why.The President is pointing to data revisions as "proof." But revisions are a normal, healthy part of producing accurate statistics.
— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-08-02T02:35:40.369Z
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T23:17:28.077502Z
Can’t do it. There’s just no substitute. We could get some useful info for sure, but BLS and rest of government stat infrastructure irreplaceable. For one, they make such info a public good. Who wants to pay for the unemployment rate? (I mean, I would, but u know what I mean.)
— Jared Bernstein (@jaredb-econ.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T23:21:35.117Z
Sad! 