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Worrying signs for the economy amid Trump's 'utterly inane and insane' dismantling of BLS - Velshi - MSNBC
A new ADP report indicating significant drops in private employment is "definitely a negative signal" for the economy, economist Justin Wolfers tells Ali Velshi.
But amid the government shutdown, we don't have an up-to-date jobs report or even someone leading the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after Trump withdrew his controversial nominee, E.J. Antoni. "The only thing he'd ever done with statistics was misrepresent them," Wolfers said. - Aired on 10/05/2025.