I will point out that our labor data can no longer be trusted as the organization is no longer politically neutral. Pushing the jobs record down means more blame for Biden and a much lower bar for Trump to meet in order to "improve" future jobs numbers.

> Trump ordered McEntarfer's removal on August 1 after data showed a surprise weakening in the U.S. labor market last month. The BLS employment report revealed meaningful revisions to job figures for the prior two months that raised investor worries that the Federal Reserve may need to play catch-up with interest rate cuts.

https://www.reuters.com/business/inflation-data-draw-scrutin...

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NotMichaelBay 2 days ago | parent [-]

Agreed, the Trump administration is _heavily_ leaning on this as evidence to support their argument that "Biden's economy" was a "disaster":

> 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.

> The benchmark revisions make clear the economy President Trump inherited was even weaker than we thought.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/bls-revisions-sh...

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amradio1989 2 days ago | parent [-]

The economy is not great and has not been great for years. That has been the reality for almost all Americans.

It’s very odd to make this about Trump vs Biden. This has been brewing for nearly two decades. Forever-QE made us forget about the real health of the economy.

	▲	T-A 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It would be very odd if it didn't follow on the heels of this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/04/trump-burea...
	▲	Spivak a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't think this is about the past two admins inasmuch as the current admin transparently and in the open cooking the books to shift blame and accountability off of themselves. There's nothing wrong with reevaluating how we look at the economy to be more realistic but this "adjustment" isn't that. I think every side of the political spectrum has said something to to the effect of needing to capture the disconnect between the usual signals and the face that everyone on the ground feels like they're doing worse. Trusting a government to both decide on how best to determine a metric that also happens to be a measure of their success, collect the data themselves, and report on it always been a conflict of interest at best. And, well, we're now seeing that conflict play out. That's the sad part about this whole thing, the data could be correct but now everyone has good reason to distrust it.