1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I am writing to express serious concern about the Trump administration's misleading statements regarding the February 2025 jobs report. The American people deserve honest communication from their government, not mathematical manipulation and false claims. The February jobs report showed 92,000 jobs lost and unemployment rising to 4.4 percent. Rather than acknowledge these troubling numbers, administration officials have attempted to spin the data with contradictory explanations. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer claimed on Fox Business that 60,000 new jobs were gained over two months. However, publicly available Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows 126,000 jobs added in January and 92,000 lost in February, totaling only 34,000 net jobs, not the 60,000 she stated. This is either incompetence or deliberate deception. Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, blamed winter weather, healthcare strikes in California and Hawaii, and statistical modeling changes. While temporary factors can affect monthly data, these excuses cannot obscure a clear pattern. Economists broadly agree that Trump's tariffs have been dragging on the economy for a year. Now his military operations in Iran, which have already killed six service members, risk triggering oil market chaos and another surge of inflation that will hurt working families. Your constituents need you to demand accurate, transparent economic reporting from this administration. We cannot make informed decisions about our financial futures when officials provide false numbers and blame external factors for policy failures. The integrity of our economic data matters for businesses, workers, and families trying to plan ahead. I urge you to publicly call for accountability from Secretary Chavez-DeRemer and other administration officials who have misrepresented employment data. Americans deserve leaders who tell the truth, even when the numbers are unfavorable.