White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that key inflation and jobs data for October will “likely never” be released due to the government shutdown.

Speaking at a news briefing, Leavitt sought to blame Democrats for the more than 40 day government shutdown, which she said “may have permanently damaged the federal statistical system with October (consumer price index) and jobs reports likely never being released.”

Leavitt added that the economic data that is released “will be permanently impaired.”

The last time a shutdown delayed a jobs report was in October 2013, when the report was delayed by a few weeks. This time, the Labor Department said it would not collect or release economic data during the shutdown. Without economic data, economists on Wall Street and at th

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