The Trump administration on Tuesday criticized the Labor Department’s annual revisions, which showed the U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs than initially reported — the largest correction on record.
The adjustment, at the high end of Wall Street forecasts, comes as President Trump intensifies pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut 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 added 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.”
Before the release of the BLS data, Trump took to Truth Social to call the Federal Reserve “broken” and lambasted its reliance on outdated indicators.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.”
In August, Trump abruptly fired agency commissioner Erika McEntarfer just hours after data revealed job growth had been heavily overstated, with May and June revised down by 258,000 jobs. He then appointed Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J. Antoni, who told Fox News Digital the BLS’s methodology and assumptions are fundamentally flawed.
“How on earth are businesses supposed to plan – or how is the Fed supposed to conduct monetary policy – when they don’t know how many jobs are being added or lost in our economy? It’s a serious problem that needs to be fixed immediately,” Antoni said. “The problems in the BLS data have been evident for three years now, and they still haven’t been fixed.”
I know the perfect person to clean up this mess at BLS.
His name is EJ Antoni and he’s currently awaiting Senate confirmation. https://t.co/mNyVHLCUe6 pic.twitter.com/72E6RU0nTr
— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) September 9, 2025
