EPI chief economist Josh Bivens posited that if the U.S. enters a recession in the coming months, the “rapid softening/deterioration in the labor market” over the last three months will likely be marked in retrospect as the start of the country’s economic decline.

Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer dismissed Trump’s allegation that the U.S. jobs report was rigged, just before the president announced on Truth Social that he had removed Erika McEntarfer,