White House urges Americans to trust Trump’s plan

On Thursday, before Friday’s jobs report release, Trump said that “the real numbers” will be reported next year.

“The real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever it is, but will be in a year from now,” he said. “You’re going to see job numbers like our country has never seen.”

When asked about the hiring slump, the national economic council director, Kevin Hassett, told CNBC on Friday that “you are seeing that people are being hired”.

“Members of my family have been hired,” he said. “Both of them started their new jobs about a week ago.”

Hassett called the jobs report “disappointing” but said that the numbers will eventually go back up.

In a separate interview on Friday, the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told CNBC that the jobs reports will be better once the administration makes changes to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“You’ll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president,” Lutnick said. He added that Americans will see “the greatest growth economy … starting six months from today to a year from today”.
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