The pro-Bidenomics clapping seals over at CNN finally had the stones to admit that a major revision in jobs growth has undercut President Joe Biden’s entire economic legacy.
For all the lipstick-smearing CNN did on the pig of Biden’s economy and his supposedly stellar jobs growth, the Bureau of Labor Statistics made a big whoopsie by conceding that it had again wildly overestimated jobs growth during his era in the 12 month period ending March 2025 — this time by a whopping 911,000.
With no clever way to spin, CNN economics reporter Elisabeth Buchwald had to admit the obvious September 10: “Massive jobs revisions are a stain on Joe Biden’s legacy, too.” Yup, Buchwald actually tried to pin some blame on President Donald Trump for this, despite the fact he was only in office for a little over a month in the period the BLS covered.
That’s barely enough time for Trump to pass gas, let alone for his tariff actions to have any real gargantuan effect on the economy. But what more can you expect from the same hapless outlet that spent so much time trying to convince everybody ad nauseum that Biden’s economy was somehow “historic” in any other sense than the complete inflationary disaster that it was?
Buchwald played her story cute by writing that “Although Trump’s policies may have contributed to some of the most dismal employment data in years, under his watch, he may not be as blame-deserving as his critics have stated.” As it turned out, wrote Buchwald, “the labor market he inherited from former President Joe Biden was not as solid as economists thought of before Tuesday.”
Well isn’t this just a textbook case of putting it mildly!
The shocker came when Buchwald conceded White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s statement on Tuesday following the BLS revision that it was “very clear that President Trump inherited a much worse economy by the Biden administration than ever reporter.” Surprisingly, Buchwald admitted, “She’s right - the historic jobs growth of Biden’s first two years certainly slowed in 2023 and petered out in 2024 before rebounding strongly to close his term.”
Buchwald, in another head-turning twist, actually conceded that the economy Trump inherited was more atrocious than what anybody in the leftist media were really willing to admit:
Trump was dealt worse cards to begin with than previously known, which means the recently reported decline in hiring – and in some sectors, layoffs – can be viewed in part as a continuation of where things left off when Biden left the White House in January.
But of course, Buchwald couldn’t help but spend the rest of her item going on a rant over Trump’s tariffs. “However, the new data doesn’t fully let Trump off the hook for the deteriorating labor market,” Buchwald spun.
We guess that this is about as close as CNN will ever get to admitting the filthy truth about what every American with two eyes, a brain and common sense could see about the wreckage Bidenomics wrought on consumers and producers across the country.