on 1 Aug, Stunning revisions show US added 258K fewer jobs than first reported, by US Companies to BLS who compiles the data and then releases the data on 4 Aug, Trump Fired Erika McEntarfer, the BLS commissioner, accusing her of politicizing the labor, without any evidence Traitor George proceeded to parrot the same convenient lie Today, Scot Bessent, Trump 2.0's Treasury Secretary, effectively, stremgthened the validity of the weak labor data as compiled / reported by the BLS Bessent said [ had the revised data on the labor market been reported to the BLS before the last Fed meeting ] officials, most probably, would have already cut rates.