Mondaire Jones on Jobs Data Blackout Amid the Shutdown: ‘That’s a Pretext,’ The Draft Was Given to the Dir. Of Labor Statistics

RUSH EXCERPT:
JONES: "That‘s a that‘s a pretext. It has also been reported that the draft of this jobs report has already been given to the latest director of labor statistics. And so if they wanted to release these these data, they could. Right. This is a president who wants to eliminate quarterly reporting for America‘s publicly traded companies. And so he doesn‘t care about data. In fact, he wants to obscure the fact that his tariffs have been causing the labor market to contract and prices to go higher and companies to not invest in manufacturing, which would then in turn, create millions of good paying jobs the way that Joe Biden‘s administration and Democrats in Congress were able to accomplish. So what she is saying is pretextual. And of course, they could reopen the government if they would just agree to extend."