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Economist Steve Moore: Trump right to fire BLS chief, her numbers off by 1.5 million jobs- The Biden administration vastly overestimated job growth during its final two years, pro-Trump economist Steve Moore said in a brief presentation from the Oval Office Thursday afternoon as he unveiled new unpublished Census Bureau data.
Moore's findings come amid the backlash President Donald Trump is facing for firing the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a Biden-era appointee who he has claimed issued "rigged" jobs numbers during the Biden administration to help Democrats.
"I was telling the president that he did the right thing calling for a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, because this shows that over the last two years of the Biden administration, the BLS overestimated job creation by 1.5 million jobs. Mr. President that's a gigantic error," Moore said Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office.
Trump quipped in response that it "might not have been an error," noting it may have been due to incompetence instead.
"If it was an error, that would be one thing," Trump added. "I don't think it's an error. I think they did it on purpose."
Just days after announcing the decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the president accused her of inflating job numbers to an "all-time high" ahead of the 2024 presidential election to help Democrats hold the White House.
Trump also claimed that, after he won the election [in each BLS monthly jobs numbers release since Trump's inauguration in Jan 2025] , McEntarfer readjusted the numbers downward to make them look worse.
Trump said the "miscalculations" were some of the most significant in more than 50 years.
...On Thursday, in addition to sharing how the Biden administration may have miscalculated job numbers during its final two years, Moore said the advanced look at Census data he had access to also showed that, from January through the end of June, the average median family income, when adjusted for inflation, was up $1,174.
Moore also said he used the new data to compare family income numbers in the U.S. under Biden compared to the numbers during Trump's first term.
"You can see that — by the way, these dotted lines here, Mr. President, that's COVID-19, so if it had not been for COVID these numbers would have been substantially better — but even taking that into account President Trump's last year, in 2020, we saw, a $6,400 real after-inflation gain in income for the average family," Moore touted Thursday.
"And that compares with Joe Biden, which was a measly $551. So, Mr. President, you gained ten times more income for the average family than Joe Biden, and that's because of your policies."
Fox News Digital reached out to BLS but did not receive an immediate reply.
Trump is attempting to fix the Bureau of Labor Statistics office [ BLS ] so that in the future BLS will post accurate monthly jobs numbers and not have to revise them quietly a few weeks later every month with the corrected accurate numbers (or even worse, what appears to be deliberately posting inaccurate numbers to help he Democrats and hurt he Republicans politically.)
The Democrat party (and their propagandist ideological brethren liberal media) are trying to front a false narrative that "Trump fired this lady just because he didn't like the numbers"
NO, Trump fired her because her numbers were consistently wrong, and by all appearances, DELIBERATELY wrong to benefit the Democrats and hurt Trump.
Trump is not looking for monthly numbers that are just propaganda numbers that help him politically, he is trying to change the way the BLS department operates, so that it simply reports accurate numbers every month in the future, and can be trusted by all sides to be fair and accurate.
And in addition to the other examples of Democrat-weaponized federal agencies I mentioned in the IRS, FBI, DOJ, ATF, CIA, NEA and others, it appears that the Federal Reserve Board is also a Democrat-weaponized agency, where no one can explain why Jerome Powell has not lowered interest rates, when Europe has done so 11 times in the recent past in response to improved economic conditions.
It is again a case of a Democrat official abusing his position to manipulate the data.
Powell lowered interest rates in 2024 to help Biden and Harris win the election, when there was no logical reason to warrant lowering interest rates at that time.
And now Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Board chairman refusies to lower interest rates when the numbers are vastly improved under Trump, and it would make sense to lower rates..
Powell's actions refusing to do so is slowing down the economy by trillions in potential economic activity, keeping artificially high interest rates that are suppressing car purchases and loans, business loans, and millions of people who would normally sell their homes to purchase new ones, but won't, because they would lose their current interest rate, and have to purchase a new home at a far higher interest rate. If Powell did his job and lowered interest rates as economic conditions warrant, there would be a surge of new home sales, trillions of dollars in new economic activity.
And by all appearances and for no other visible economic reason, Democrat Jerome Powell is hurting millions of people by refusing to lower rates, just to spite Trump and hurt him politically.
