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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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| 0:17.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:23.9 | After an ugly jobs report, President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, accusing her without any real evidence of rigging the data. |
| 0:35.0 | Meantime, amid this economic slowdown, Trump unveils a raft of new |
| 0:39.5 | tariff rates, though federal court sounds skeptical that he has the power to impose them. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, |
| 0:50.3 | columnists Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassel. There's no easy way to sugarcoat the July numbers that the BLS reported on Friday. |
| 1:00.0 | Net new jobs that month, only about 73,000 and even bigger were the downward revisions of about 250,000 in the numbers previously reported for May and June. |
| 1:12.6 | One way to judge the impact of a piece of news is to see how big of a splash it makes, |
| 1:17.9 | and this one has prompted a furious reaction from President Trump in the White House. |
| 1:23.0 | Here's the president this morning on Truth Social. |
| 1:25.8 | He said last week's jobs report was rigged, just like the |
| 1:29.4 | numbers prior to the presidential election were rigged. He went on to say those big adjustments |
| 1:33.4 | were made to cover up and level out the fake political numbers that were concocted in order to make |
| 1:38.7 | a great Republican success look less stellar. Let's listen also to President Trump. This is him on Sunday before |
| 1:45.9 | departing from New Jersey back to Washington, D.C. We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime |
| 1:52.5 | over the next three, four days. We had no confidence. I mean, the numbers were ridiculous, |
| 1:58.2 | which he announced, but that was just one negative number. |
| 2:01.4 | All of the numbers seemed to be great. |
| 2:04.1 | And so we'll see how that comes out. |
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