S15 EP28: Hour 2 - The Job Complications
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Lets try to make sense of the jobs numbers that just came out plus the President seems to have abandoned any kind of governing philosophy as he heads towards lame duck status.
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| 1:05.9 | We've got to talk about jobs, and jobs is, well, it's complicated. |
| 1:16.1 | When Joe Biden was president, Republicans would come out and say, we don't believe the numbers are right. |
| 1:27.7 | The numbers would inevitably revise down. |
| 1:31.1 | And then when Donald Trump became president, the Democrats would say they didn't believe it. |
| 1:34.3 | And then Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
| 1:38.7 | And now even people in the business community are like, I don't know that we can trust the data. |
| 1:45.7 | Sounds like they're telling the president what he wants to hear. |
| 1:48.4 | Your mileage may vary on that, but it's a conversation that's out there. |
| 1:52.0 | But we should just treat the things as they are. |
| 1:55.8 | And if they're revised later, I'll tell you about the revisions. |
| 1:58.9 | And we have to start with the 2025 jobs revision, which was bad. |
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