President Donald Trump successful a societal media station Thursday evening indirectly revealed information from Friday's market-moving nonfarm payrolls count, an evident usurpation of long-standing national argumentation connected statistical releases.
In a Truth Social post astir 9 p.m. ET, the president indicated that backstage assemblage payrolls had expanded by 654,000 for the afloat twelvemonth of 2025, a full that would person included Friday's jobs number for December.
Office of Management and Budget argumentation prohibits enforcement subdivision officials from commenting connected specified releases aboriginal and successful information forbids nationalist statements until 30 minutes aft the release.
Presidents tin beryllium briefed connected authoritative jobs figures up of the release.
A White House authoritative conceded, however, that "there was an inadvertent nationalist disclosure of aggregate information that was partially derived from pre-released information. The White House is accordingly reviewing protocols regarding economical information releases."
The authoritative further chided the media for "grasping astatine straws to foment different fake controversy" and alternatively urged a absorption connected however "President Trump's policies are laying the groundwork for an economical resurgence arsenic GDP and existent wage maturation proceed to accelerate."
The Trump station drew a favoritism betwixt backstage and authorities occupation growth, with the second down 181,000 for 2025.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' December jobs report, posted by U.S. President Donald Trump connected his Truth Social account, astir 12 hours earlier the figures were publically released, is seen successful this screenshot obtained connected January 9, 2026.
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Friday's jobs information merchandise went connected to amusement that nonfarm payrolls accrued 50,000 for December, each but 2,000 of which came from the backstage sector. The figures, portion somewhat little than authoritative economists' estimates, assuaged concerns astir a steeper driblet successful employment. Stock futures trended higher pursuing the data.
While Trump's station would not let traders to cipher the nonstop payrolls fig due to the fact that of deficiency of information connected revisions, they could person gleaned a unsmooth estimation of the fig and perchance ruled retired a December job-loss script that would person spooked markets.
Trump erstwhile telegraphed somewhat a affirmative jobs fig successful his archetypal term, drafting criticism.
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