Amid Bad Jobs Report, Trump White House Leans Into Politics

在糟糕的就业报告发布之际,特朗普白宫转向政治斗争

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2025-08-05

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The fallout from President Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over what he called a ‘rigged’ jobs report continued Monday, as White House officials rushed to defend his actions. Amid growing bipartisan outcry, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett put the blame on a familiar culprit in the Trump Cinematic Universe: The Deep State. He told CNBC, “All over the U.S. government, there have been people who have been resisting Trump everywhere they can.” Trump is expected to announce his new pick to run the BLS this week, but already he’s made that person’s job – and the bureau’s job – harder by making Americans even less likely to trust their data. Heidi Shierholz, who served as the chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Barack Obama and now runs the nonpartisan labor think tank the Economic Policy Institute, joins us to talk about the BLS, the important data it compiles, and what the hell a revision is. And in headlines: Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott escalated the redistricting fight with state Democrats, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace announced her campaign for South Carolina governor, and the Trump administration has reportedly backtracked on the president’s campaign promise to make health insurers cover IVF. Show notes: Call Congress – 202-224-3121Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/3kk4nyz8What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcastFollow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday
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  • It's Tuesday, August 5th.

  • I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,

  • the show that says, let's not put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

  • Let's not do that.

  • Let's do a lot of other things, but let's not put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

  • On today's show,

  • the Trump administration backtracks on the president's campaign promise to make health insurers cover IVF.

  • Shocking!

  • And Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott escalates the redistricting fight with state Democrats.

  • But let's start by talking about the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

  • a markedly nonpartisan entity which President Donald Trump has,

  • surprise, surprise, injected partisan politics into after a recent jobs report that was not,

  • shall we say, good.

  • The fallout from Trump's decision last week to fire the head of the BLS in the wake of the report continued Monday.

  • And amid growing bipartisan outcry,

  • White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett put the blame on a familiar culprit in the Trump cinematic universe,

  • the deep state.

  • And for goodness sakes, we know that hopefully not much of the data area,

  • but all over the U.S. government,

  • there have been people who have been resisting Trump everywhere they can.