Director Kevin Hassett of the National Economic Council has the decision of President Donald Trump on Sunday to dismiss the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), teaching an allegedly “partisan pattern” in the reporting of the American task data.
Hassett accused the BLS of a lack of transparency and said that the agency did not give a detailed explanation of the revision of August 2024.
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Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday 30 June 2025. (Aaron Scwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty images)
“Instead, they have this small black box that moves the numbers and wonders, sometimes with partisan patterns. And so I think what we need is a new set of the BLS, someone who can clean up this thing,” Hassett said.
The Economic Adviser of the White House referred to his speech on the BLS Symposium 2015, where he spoke about modernization in the 100 -year anniversary of the consumer Expenditure Survey.
“I talked about how the data cannot be propaganda,” Hassett said. “The data must be something that you can trust, because decision makers trust throughout the economy that this is the data, that they can build a factory because they believe or lower the interest rates because they believe. And if the data is not so good, then it is a real problem for the US and now the data has become very unreliable with these massive revisions in the last few years.”
The BLS reported that Friday that 74,000 jobs were added in JulyWell under the 110,000 estimate of economists respondents by LSEG. The report also revised job growth in May and June. The profits of May were reduced by 125,000 to only 19,000 jobs, while the June figures were revised by 133,000 to only 14,000 jobs that month.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media before going on the southern lawn of the White House in Washington DC on August 1, 2025. (Mehmet Eser/Midden -Ooste Images/AFP via Getty Images/Getty statements)
According to the BLS, the last time a revision was more than 133,000 lower in March 2021, when it was revised with 146,000 in the COVID-19 Pandemie for a year.
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Trump claimed that the task numbers of the country “are produced by a Biden -appointed, Dr. Erika Mceltarfar, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who falsified the job numbers before the elections to try to stimulate Kamala’s chances of victory.” Mcentarfar was appointed by Biden, but previously received two -part support in the Senate in 2024, with the current vice president JD Vance among Republican senators who supported her before earning a place on Trump’s presidential ticket.
Despite the “disappointing” job report, Hassett pointed to how the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported on July 30 that the GDP increased in the second quarter with an annual rate of 3.0%.
President Donald J. Trump leaves the White House on his way to Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 1, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Thomas/Midden -Ooste Images/AFP via Getty Images/Getty statements)
“It is really important to keep an eye on our eyes on the horizon and see the eyes on the horizon really slippery sailing for ahead,” Hassett said. “When I first saw the big revisions, which by the way were the biggest revisions that had been going back for 50 years, when we exclude the Covid years, when I saw those revisions, I thought it should be a typo. That I have never seen such a revision.”
Hassett argued that Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” would compensate for all the consequences of rates on the US economy and increase the average family income by $ 10,000.
“The Congressional Budget Office has said that we are looking at about three trillion at new rates in the United States. That is something that will really help us balance the budget. And all inflation numbers are lower than they have been in five years,” he said.
He also supported the President’s call for new leadership at the agency.
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“They have to go back to Ground Zero and see why the figures have started so unreliable. And you know, why did the figures not really picked up the gig economy, and so on,” Hassett said. “So now we have BLS numbers that are not really much better than during Covid, and we have to understand why. And so I think the President’s right to call new leadership. I think Erika is a great person, but I think it’s time for someone to come in and repair this because these figures are so crucial.”
