The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit sent to the Acting Commissioner of the BLS on Wednesday.

This comes one day after the BLS said there were nearly 1 million fewer people employed for the year ended in March than previously reported as part of the agency’s annual revisions.

While members of the Trump administration have said on Tuesday that the revisions are a sign that the president inherited a worse economy from former President Joe Biden, they’ve also said that it’s proof that improvements need to be made at the BLS to improve the accuracy of data.

Tuesday’s revisions, while unusually large,

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