Fox & Friends Weekend promoted the idea that the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated jobs data during the Biden administration to defend Donald Trump's firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Charlie Hurt claimed that revisions from the BLS were systematically upward and politically timed. However, revisions under Biden included both increases and decreases, with particular months showing job losses. Economists refute any partisan motives behind BLS data revisions, which are part of a standard updating process based on more complete employer reports.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, their record of having to revise these things, always in the same direction. We saw it throughout the Biden years.
Revisions from the BLS under Biden were both positive and negative, lowering previously reported job gains by a combined 258,000 jobs.
No serious economist has suggested a partisan motive, and there is zero evidence that BLS employees skew data to benefit any political party.
Jobs reports often include revisions; it's literally how the system is designed. The BLS produces initial estimates quickly, then updates them as more complete data becomes available.
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