The White House said Friday it is reviewing its policies regarding economic data releases after an “inadvertent disclosure” of jobs report data by President Trump.
In a series of Thursday evening posts on Truth Social, the president shared infographics including information from the December jobs report, which was released Friday morning.
Presidents are routinely briefed on major economic data reports the night before they are released. But the president and all other White House officials are banned from publicly discussing or sharing sensitive economic data until one hour after it is released, in order to avoid financial market manipulation.
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“Following the regular procedure of presidents being prebriefed on economic data releases, there was an inadvertent public disclosure of aggregate data that was partially derived from pre-released information,” a White House official said in a Friday statement.
“The White House is accordingly reviewing protocols regarding economic data releases,” the official continued.
“Instead of grasping at straws to foment another fake controversy, however, the media would be better off covering what today’s job report actually shows: President Trump’s policies are laying the groundwork for an economic resurgence as GDP and real wage growth continue to accelerate.”
The December jobs report showed the U.S. adding only 50,000 jobs last month, with the jobless rate ticking down slightly to 4.4 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reduced the annual job gain by 68,000 with revisions to the October and November totals.
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While gross domestic product and economic productivity have accelerated this year, hiring has fallen off sharply and inflation has remained close to its level in November 2024, when Trump was elected pledging to bring prices down.
“2025 brought the weakest payrolls growth since the pandemic shutdown (and reopening) year of 2020,” Bankrate senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick wrote.
“Sector participation in jobs creation continues to be anemic with health care, social assistance and food and drinking establishments doing the heavy lifting. The goods producing sector, including manufacturing, failed to add new jobs once again.”
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