The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release its jobs and economic data report for June 2024 this week, but Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) believes it will be false. In a statement, the Florida Senator hit the Biden Administration with both barrels, saying, "It has never been more clear that we need a big change in the White House because the Bidenomics agenda is one big failure after another."
"Ahead of this week's jobs report, I want to make something very clear to Floridians: in this latest report, the Biden administration will again try to spin the data and trick folks into thinking our economy is on the right track. Sadly, it's a lie," Sen. Scott bluntly began, claiming that previous job reports issued by the White House had to be revised to reflect the state of the economy more accurately.
The Wall Street Journal noted that the BLS's method for calculating new jobs is split between surveying over 119,000 businesses and rotating 60,000 households. While results do not precisely match, the gap in data based on these two methods has widened in recent years, which suggests that while new jobs are said to be added, fewer people are actually working. Moreover, the Journal suggested the surge in immigration under the Biden Administration is a potential cause for the discrepancy.
Sen. Scott further noted that "In previous months, the only 'job growth' actually seen was folks taking on multiple part-time jobs because full-time jobs are disappearing as a result of Democrat policies, which make it difficult for American companies to compete globally. That means that hardworking Americans cannot afford to buy necessities like gas and groceries on their current paychecks."
Arizona's Representative David Schweikert (R-AZ) similarly blasted the 2024 Economic Report of the President in late June, deriding claims that wages grew as "election-year math."
"We refer to that as election-year math," said Rep. Schweikert, "and there is a reason so many people are angry in our society. I represent the Phoenix-Scottsdale area. If you do not make well over 26% more, and that is the mean, since President Biden took office, you are poor."
Scott's recent statement was equally critical of the Biden Administration, concluding, "Everywhere you look, American families are suffering more under Biden's failed leadership, and no amount of lies in the press or in White House press releases will change that sad reality for hardworking families. It has never been more clear that we need a big change in the White House because the Bidenomics agenda is one big failure after another."
