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 non-partisan 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's cinematic universe, the deep state. And for good to 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. And so to make sure that that's not going to happen

in the data agencies, to make sure that the data are as transparent and as reliable as possible,

we're going to get highly qualified people in there that have a fresh start and a fresh

eyes on the problem. Of course, Hassett was totally fine with the BLS as recently as February of this year.

Curious speaking to Bloomberg on how downward revisions were totally fine, if they could be used to criticize the Biden administration.

And so I say that what we learned with all these downward revisions is that the Biden economy, the Biden jobs market was way worse than market slot.

...