UM… I SPENT FOUR YEARS REPORTING ON THIS:
🚨 New data shows Trump inherited a much bleaker labor market from the Biden administration than we’d previously known: https://t.co/CICBhd1mGL
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 9, 2025
Realizing that 51% of the jobs reported during the last year of the Biden administration never actually existed…pic.twitter.com/dkf6z23KPK
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 9, 2025
But for those just getting the news, that 1.7 million figure ought to go a long way toward explaining why Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — and all the accompanying panic.
Related:
Remember when the media just suddenly redefined what a recession was in 2023 to protect Biden in the upcoming election? https://t.co/0V3zqNgXni
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 9, 2025
From the replies: “The economy wasn’t in recession; it was just pining for the fjords.”