President Donald Trump has been saying it for months: the Biden “boom” was a mirage propped up by bad data and wish-casting. Now the government’s own statisticians just pulled the curtain. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a massive benchmark revision—down 911,000 jobs for April 2024 through March 2025—the largest on record. Translation: the economy Trump inherited in January was even weaker than Team Biden and their media echo chamber claimed.

Inside the White House briefing room, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t mince words. Biden officials “stood up here and vouched for that data,” she said, sneering at anyone—especially Trump—who questioned it. The revision proves they were wrong. Or worse, they didn’t care enough to check. Either way, the White House now confirms what working families have felt for a year: slower hiring, pay that can’t stretch, and a “soft landing” story that never matched reality.

The math is brutal. Biden-world bragged Trump was taking over with 147,000 jobs a month. After the revision, it’s closer to 71,000. That’s a face-plant, not a handoff. And when you subtract the 911,000 from the 1.76 million jobs they claimed for that period, you’re left with roughly 849,000—less than half the headline hype. Even CNBC had to concede most of the weakness happened before Trump’s tariffs or new policies kicked in. So spare us the instant-blame spin. The slide started on Biden’s watch.

Trump’s push to fix the numbers machine looks prescient too. He’s nominated economist E.J. Antoni to run the BLS and clean out the rot that’s turned “official data” into political cover. It’s long past time. Policymakers and markets rely on these reports. When the counts are inflated by nearly a million, you get bad decisions at every level—especially at the Federal Reserve.

Speaking of the Fed, the revision lights a fire under Jerome “Too Late” Powell. Nationwide’s Oren Klachkin put it plainly: a weaker 2024 labor market means income growth was softer than advertised, which “should give the Fed more impetus to restart its cutting cycle.” Exactly. Rates stayed too high for too long based on fairy-tale jobs prints. Small businesses choked. Housing seized up. Families ate inflation while elites bragged about “resilience.” If the governors were waiting for permission to move—this is it. Cut.

This isn’t just an accounting error. It’s a political indictment. Biden and his allies ran around waving inflated payrolls to sell more spending, more handouts, and more open-border labor. Meanwhile, the revisions show the “growth” was overstated by roughly 1.5 million over two years. If the best they can do—after importing millions of new workers, juicing the welfare state, and setting money on fire—is flat-to-meh job creation, imagine how bad the real baseline was.

The media will shrug and call this “routine benchmarking.” Nonsense. Routine doesn’t lop nearly a million jobs off the board. Routine doesn’t move monthly averages by half. Routine doesn’t confirm that a sitting administration oversold the economy for political gain. They told you everything was fine. The data now admits it wasn’t.

Trump’s economic team has already reset the mission: restore credibility, slash rates responsibly, end the regulatory chokehold, and prioritize American workers over Washington narratives. That starts with truth in numbers. It continues with a Fed that serves the real economy, not the feelings of Beltway pundits. And it ends with growth you can feel: cheaper mortgages, rising real wages, and a job market built on production—not press releases.

Biden’s last gift to the country is now official: a weaker labor market than advertised. Trump was right to call it out. He’s right to demand accountability at BLS. And he’s right to push Powell to wake up. The revision isn’t just a footnote—it’s a confession. Now let’s fix the mess they left.