CV NEWS FEED // A chorus of Congressional Republicans confronted the Biden-Harris administration this week after a corrected jobs report showed significantly fewer jobs created than previously reported.
The New York Post reported that “revised figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), released last week, suggested that there were actually 818,000 fewer jobs during the 12 months ending in March than initially reported.”
The BLS is a division of the Department of Labor.
“That means that the actual job growth during that period was likely around 30% less than first thought,” the Post’s report noted, calling the correction the Labor Department’s “largest downward revision to US payroll figures since 2009.”
That year, the BLS overestimated jobs by 824,000 – a few thousand more than this year.
Five Republican senators penned a letter to Biden-Harris acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su, stating that the “misleading numbers created a false impression for the public and cast doubt on the validity of the Bureau’s accuracy and legitimacy.”
“As we approach the presidential election in approximately 70 days,” the letter added, “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.”
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The letter was signed by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-OK, and Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL.
Su has been serving as the head of her department in an acting capacity since former Biden-Harris Labor Secretary Marty Walsh resigned in March of last year to lead a hockey players’ union.
President Joe Biden nominated Su to replace Walsh, but the Senate has yet to confirm her.
In July 2023, Sen. Joe Manchin, I-WV, then a Democrat, announced his opposition to Su’s confirmation, citing her “progressive background.” At the same time, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-AZ, a former Democrat, had refused to state whether she supported or opposed the acting secretary’s confirmation.
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Marshall told the Post that the “misleading” statistics represented an “outrageous betrayal of trust and one of the reasons Americans have lost all faith in this Administration.”
Due to it being a part of the federal government, the BLS is funded using taxpayer money.
“Manipulating the numbers to spin a false narrative while people are struggling to afford gas and groceries is not only dishonest,” Marshall added, “it’s insulting.”
Marshall wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last week: “Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are cooking the books for political power.”
“They have completely fabricated job growth in an attempt to make you believe the economy is stronger than it is,” he added. “How insulting to American’s intelligence.”
In addition to senators, various Republican members of the House also decried the administration’s job numbers.
Rep. Warren Davidson, R-OH, wrote on X on August 21: “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are gaslighting YOU to believe their economy is working.”
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, quipped: “All those jobs Biden and Harris told everyone they created? They only exaggerated by 818,000.”
The following day, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, wrote on X:
Kamalanomics is crushing our economy.
And despite Democrats’ efforts, the American people know it’s true because they experience it every day.
In June, CatholicVote reported that BLS statistics
showed that during last month alone, the number of employed native-born workers decreased by 663,000 while the number of employed foreign-born grew by 414,000.
Also per the BLS report, “there were only 971,000 more U.S.-born Americans employed in May 2024 compared to May 2019 prior to the pandemic,” Steven Camarota, Ph.D., Director of Research for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported Monday.
The number of employed immigrants, meanwhile, “increased by 3.2 million,” he noted.
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