The Bureau of Labor Statistics was presupposed to launch the September jobs report on Friday—one that will possible have proven one more disappointing month of job creation as President Donald Trump’s tariffs cripple the labor market.
However the report was not launched, although it’s full and might be made public, as a result of the federal authorities is shut down and the Trump administration deemed BLS staff to be nonessential.
“This website is currently not being updated due to the suspension of Federal government services,” the BLS web site says. “The last update to the site was Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Updates to the site will start again when the Federal government resumes operations.”
Not releasing the month-to-month jobs report is dangerous for quite a few causes.
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Initially is that the Federal Reserve makes use of the roles report as important knowledge when assessing tips on how to deal with rates of interest. With out that knowledge, the Federal Reserve is flying blind when figuring out whether or not to alter rate of interest ranges, which might have main penalties for the already struggling financial system.
The subsequent assembly of the Federal Reserve’s committee that units charges is on Oct. 28 and 29. If the federal government just isn’t reopened by then, then the financial institution should make its choice with out the roles knowledge.
Actually, William Seaside, a former BLS commissioner who now serves as the manager director of a finances suppose tank on Capitol Hill, stated it’s doable we could by no means see the report.
“All the data have been collected and processed. Thus, BLS might publish the jobs report as soon as it reopens,” Seaside wrote in a Q&A concerning the shutdown. “However, that unscheduled publication would require approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House. OMB approves a publication schedule at the beginning of the year for all statistical reports designated as Principal Federal Economic Indicators. The jobs report is one of those reports. Any change in that schedule needs OMB approval.”
Greater than that, nonetheless, is that it is tremendous handy for Trump that he will get to withhold a job report and keep away from but extra adverse press that his financial system is within the crapper.
Already, Trump fired the BLS director after the labor statistics company launched a jobs report that Trump did not like. He had chosen Nazi-loving, traitorous, unqualified hack E.J. Antoni to interchange the fired BLS chief as a result of he needed to cease the month-to-month job stories altogether with the intention to save Trump from embarrassment. (Trump ended up rescinding Antoni’s nomination amid opposition to Atoni’s credentials).
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) despatched a letter to Russell Vought, the Venture 2025 mastermind and present director of the Workplace of Administration and Funds, to inform him to launch September’s job numbers regardless of the shutdown.
“Withholding this data would undermine the Fed’s ability to make informed decisions that affect every American household through interest rates, the job market, and price stability,” Warren wrote within the letter. “I urge you to authorize the release of the September Employment Situation report without delay. The American people deserve transparency about the state of our economy.”
Finally, there may be one other month-to-month jobs report compiled by the payroll agency ADP. It isn’t thought-about to be the blue ribbon knowledge that the BLS compiles, however it does present some concept of how the labor market is doing.
The final ADP jobs report launched on Wednesday confirmed that the non-public sector shed jobs in September. Actually, ADP has proven that the non-public sector has misplaced jobs in three out of the final 4 months, as corporations have needed to make cuts due to Trump’s idiotic tariffs chopping into their revenue margins.
And the Trump administration is now battling how to answer the truth that ADP is exhibiting the labor market in the bathroom.
“We have the strongest economy in the world,” Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer advised CNN on Friday when pressed to answer the ADP numbers.
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BERMAN: The non-public sector jobs from ADP, not nice. And for those who on the jobs stories going again to spring, not nice both. Why are jobs lagging?
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: Effectively actually, what we inherited from Biden
B: However why is it headed in unsuitable route?
CD: We now have the strongest financial system on this planet
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Apparently to Trump and his goons, up is down, left is true, and the shitty financial system is definitely nice!
