Now, if Congress is serious about addressing unemployment, we need unemployment data because that which gets measured gets done. Now, I first introduced this bill because Last October, Donald Trump did not publish the data. That's why it needs to be codified. That was the first time in the history of BLS that an administration, Republican or Democrat, skipped a month. (03:35–03:38)
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Asserts that Trump did not release unemployment data in October.
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