The jobs numbers were never phony
One last thing about this morning’s better-than-expected jobs report.
Trump cast doubt on government data repeatedly and without evidence during the campaign. During this morning’s White House press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said with a laugh that Trump no longer thinks Bureau of Labor Statistics reports are “phony.”
But it’s really not funny at all.
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