A group of GOP Senators is demanding answers on how President Biden’s Department of Labor severely overestimated the job numbers by more than 800,000 — resulting in the largest numbers downgrade since 2009.
The actual job growth in the year-long period ending in March was around 30% less than first thought.
From The New York Post:
While the BLS often revises its job estimates long after the initial numbers make the headlines, the lawmakers said the eye-bulging adjustment was unusually large.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who is leading the charge, said the public deserves an investigation into whether the numbers were intentionally fudged to boost the Harris-Biden administration.
“Using taxpayer dollars to mislead the public for political gain is an outrageous betrayal of trust and one of the reasons Americans have lost all faith in this Administration,” Marshall told The Post.
“Manipulating the numbers to spin a false narrative while people are struggling to afford gas and groceries is not only dishonest — it’s insulting.”
The Post has not seen evidence that political motivations were at play in the massive revisions.
The Kansas Republican was joined by Sens. Ted Budd (R-NC), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).
“These misleading numbers created a false impression for the public and cast doubt on the validity of the Bureau’s accuracy and legitimacy,” the senators wrote in a letter to acting Labor Secretary Julie Su.
“As we approach the presidential election in approximately 70 days, the state of the economy is one of the major issues on [Americans’] minds. There should be no confusion when it comes to evaluating the health of our economy,” the senators added.
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