White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed former President Joe Biden for the weak labor market in the 12 months through March.

Leavitt said in a statement that the Bureau of Labor Statistics today released “the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken.”

“This is exactly why we need new leadership to restore trust and confidence in the BLS’s data on behalf of the financial markets, businesses, policymakers, and families that rely on this data to make major decisions,” she added. “Much like the BLS has failed the American people, so has Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell — who has officially run out of excuses and must cut the rates now.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the number of jobs created in the U.S. from April 2024 to March 2025 was revised down by 911,000. Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, so some of the latest numbers covered the beginning of his second administration.

The agency said last week that the U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, which was well below expectations.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a post on X that the revised data “gives the American people even more reason to doubt the integrity of data being published by @BLS.gov.”

“Leaders at the bureau failed to improve their practices during the Biden administration, utilizing outdated methods that rendered a once reliable system completely ineffective and calling into question the motivation behind their inaction,” Chavez-DeRemer wrote.

She added that Trump and his administration are “committed to finding solutions to these problems, including by modernizing to improve transparency and deliver more accurate and timely data for American businesses and workers.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, also criticized the agency in a statement for failing “to deliver accurate jobs data.”

“The status quo is not working,” Cassidy said. “BLS cannot continue to use the same process and expect a different outcome. President Trump made clear he wants to fix BLS so it can deliver accurate, reliable economic data that the American people can trust. This highlights the need for the HELP Committee to work with the administration to fix this problem.”