‘Gigantic Error’: Pres. Trump and Steve Moore Present New Data Showing BLS Overestimated Job Creation During Last 2 Years of Biden Administration

Trump: “Well, thank you very much, everybody. We’re going to have just a quick session with Steve Moore. Everybody knows Steve Moore with the Heritage Foundation, highly respected, one of the most highly respected economists and people that watch your money and know more about your money and your life than probably anybody I can think of. And I want to thank Steve for being here. I saw this today. They came out. What he puts out gets a lot of coverage. And saw some of them and then he had a couple of others. And I’d like to ask Steve maybe to discuss a few of these numbers that were just released, I mean, literally just released. And then we’re going over and we’re going to do Purple Heart. We have some incredible brave people that I look forward to. So we’re going to do that right after this. Steve, could you say a few words about the various charts?”

MOORE: “Thank you, Mr. President. So, I called the president because I had some very good news from some new data that we’ve been able to put together that no one has ever seen before, and I’ll just very quickly go through these. So, I was telling the president that he did the right thing in calling for a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because this shows that over the last two years of the Biden Administration, the BLS overestimated job creation by 1.5 million jobs. That’s a — Mr. President, that’s a gigantic error. And I don’t know if she’s —“

Trump: “It might not have been an error. That’s the bad part. If it was an error, it would be one thing. I don’t think it’s an error. I think they did it purposely.”

MOORE: “Whether that — you may well be right, but even if it wasn’t purposefully, it’s incompetence.”

Trump: “Right.”

MOORE: “OK, so 1.5 million jobs overestimated.”