The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

President Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.

Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s chainsaw contributed to the downward employment revisions that drew President Trump’s ire and led to the now-infamous firing of the labor statistics commissioner.