Here’re other prior 2 month cumulative revisions, normalized by employment (after all, the country has been growing for the past 100 years):
Source: Abecasis, Walker, “US Daily: Q&A on the Revisions in the July Employment Report,” Goldman Sachs, August 2, 2025.
Using the Trump criterion, the following BLS Commissioners should’a been fired.
I see that Trump did not fire Bill Beach, but did fire Erika McEntarfer. For a complete list of Sentate-confirmed BLS Commissioners, see here (there were 4 BLS Commissioners that did not have a larger (by percentage) revision).
