So the admin fired someone for coming up with numbers too favorable to them?
No, BLS was dramatically undercounting illegal aliens in the workforce during Biden, then suddenly 3 million more under Trump. This meant that during Trump, millions of native workers took jobs previously held by illegal aliens without this being reported at all by BLS, and therefore there was no reduction in unemployment shown. This was in turn hidden by the fact that supposedly the American population exploded in December, 2024 and has been surging since, which is of course is utterly absurd.
The trick here is that anyone new at BLS really can’t show any of this until new baselines for the data are set after this month. Look for a massive drop in the size of the workforce next month, when a new baseline comes out. Don’t expect sudden changes in the unemployment rate; that doesn’t distinguish between legal and illegal workers.
The problem is that the workforce data depends on the CENSUS data and the Census data is based on polling. If someone quit answering their polls, the Census “officially” doesn’t know that the reason is they’ve left the country.