As if Scott Bessent wasn’t angry enough already.

The Treasury secretary, in the headlines in recent days for allegedly threatening to smack one of his colleagues in the face, now finds himself in damage control mode after a brutal Bureau of Labor Statistics report Tuesday—the latest sign that Donald Trump may not be ushering in the economic “golden age” he’d promised.

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the job growth estimates released in March 2025 by 900,000 fewer jobs than for the year ending in March. Much of the time span covered in the report was before Trump took office, as Bessent was quick to point out Tuesday. “President Trump inherited a far worse economy than reported,” he posted . But the ugly outlook is being exacerbated by Trump’s trade war and un

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