The White House announced Tuesday that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) overstated job growth by more than 900,000 between April 2024 and March 2025, marking the largest downward revision on record.

The change has reignited scrutiny of economic data released under Joe Biden and raised questions about how the job market was represented during his administration.

According to the White House statement, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just revised down their jobs numbers from April 2024 to March 2025 by 911,000 jobs — the biggest revision on record and another blunder in the lengthy history of inaccuracies and incompetence at BLS.”

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The statement continued, “The benchmark revisions make clear the economy President Trump inherited was even weaker than we thought. Job growth was lackluster under Biden, with initial revisions from the last two years showing job growth was overstated by roughly 1.5 million workers — showing the Biden economy was propped up by illegal immigrants, poor data, government handouts, and a flood of Federal spending.”

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It added that despite expanded immigration policies, the Biden-Harris administration “still failed to add meaningfully more jobs than President Trump did in his first term.”

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The White House urged Congress to confirm E.J. Antoni, President Trump’s nominee for BLS commissioner, to oversee reforms at the agency.

“President Trump is right to demand accountability and reform at BLS,” the statement read.

“The stark revisions underscore the urgent need for Congress to confirm E.J. Antoni … and begin the major reforms needed to restore Americans’ trust in the data after years of inaccuracy that has misled policymakers and eroded confidence.”

The White House also tied the revision to Federal Reserve policy.

“President Trump is right about the Federal Reserve being TOO LATE. The revisions make clear that the Fed’s monetary policy is far too restrictive and interest rates remain too high,” the statement concluded.

At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of economic data.

“And the Biden administration stood up here and vouched for that data and told you that data was real, and when President Trump calls into question the veracity of that data … he was ridiculed for that,” Leavitt said.

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“The president was right, and this is why we need new leadership at the Fed,” she added.

“This makes it very clear that President Trump inherited a much worse economy by the Biden administration than ever reported. It also proves that the Federal Reserve is holding our monetary policy far too restrictive. Rates are too high. The Fed needs to cut rates because of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration.”

A Fox Business reporter noted that the Biden-Harris administration previously claimed Trump took office with job creation averaging 147,000 per month.

With the revisions, that figure is closer to 71,000 per month.

“The 911,000 will be subtracted from the 1.76 million jobs [claimed by Biden], which comes out to 849K, showing the Biden job growth NOT as strong as first thought,” the reporter said.

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Economists also weighed in on the implications. Oren Klachkin, market economist at Nationwide Financial, said, “The BLS’ preliminary benchmark revisions to nonfarm payrolls show a much weaker labor market over most of 2024 and early 2025 than previously estimated. Importantly, the slower job creation implies income growth was also on a softer footing even prior to the recent rise in policy uncertainty and economic slowdown we’ve seen since the spring. This should give the Fed more impetus to restart its cutting cycle.”

The data revisions, which cover a period before President Trump began implementing his tariff policies, suggest that weaker labor conditions predated his economic measures.

This clarification undercuts claims that tariffs were the cause of slower job creation.

With the revisions now public, attention turns to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, as policymakers and markets await whether the Fed will begin lowering interest rates in response to the updated data.

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