How exactly does the BLS assemble the critical jobs report? And what is the commissioner’s role? Here’s what we know.

When the coronavirus surged during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of testing so the deadly outbreak looked less severe. When he lost the 2020 election,

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.