Last administration cooked the books on BLS numbers for nearly 2 years, issuing corrections and all that nobody paid attention to. They also redefined what a recession is during the last administration.
Because of debt spending, everyone wants to act like we did something amazing. We didn’t, we just pumped in more debt and the economy went up. We are now even more in the red as a nation
Trump is incompetent at best (a crony at worst), a bull in the legislative China shop, and revels in drawing attention to himself... so it shouldn't be too surprising people are on high alert during his tenure and news headlines get more attention.
Last administration cooked the books on BLS numbers for nearly 2 years
I'm going to need to see a citation for such a claim...
Not the GP, but here is an analysis of the BLS data arguing the opposite[0]. Short answer, BLS data gets revised all the time and the supposedly smoking gun revision that was used to justify firing the BLS head was not even in the top 50 most extreme corrections.
Wasn't a news story then, but is now b/c trump.