From Fox News: In a series of Thursday evening posts on Truth Social, the president shared infographics including information from the December jobs report, which was released Friday morning.
The White House said Friday it is reviewing its policies regarding economic data releases after an “inadvertent disclosure” of jobs report data by President Trump.
Presidents are routinely briefed on major economic data reports the night before they are released. But the president and all other White House officials are banned from publicly discussing or sharing sensitive economic data until one hour after it is released, in order to avoid financial market manipulation.
“Following the regular procedure of presidents being prebriefed on economic data releases, there was an inadvertent public disclosure of aggregate data that was partially derived from pre-released information,” a White House official said on Friday.
“The White House is accordingly reviewing protocols regarding economic data releases,” the official continued.
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