EJ Antoni’s breakdown of the July 2025 jobs report reveals serious flaws in the data coming from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), undermining public trust in economic reporting. While the Biden administration’s appointees continue to obscure true job figures, President Trump’s America First policies are showing positive results—especially for native-born American workers. Antoni highlights the unique influence of War Room as a platform for driving real oversight, truth-telling, and accountability.
In a revealing segment on Friday’s WarRoom, economist EJ Antoni unpacked the July jobs report and made it clear: the numbers we’re being fed from the Bureau of Labor Statistics can’t be trusted—and haven’t been for a while.
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Right off the top, Steve Bannon challenged the validity of the so-called quarter-million jobs gain, asking the question that’s on many Americans’ minds: who’s really running BLS, and why are we still seeing such blatant data manipulation?
Antoni, who has been tracking BLS distortions for years, laid it out bluntly: "We still haven’t gotten one of our people into BLS. That’s part of the problem.” He pointed to Bill Beach—an expert statistician removed by the Biden administration—as someone who had begun correcting deep-rooted issues. Since Beach’s departure, Antoni said, things have only gotten worse.
The evidence is in the charts: discrepancies between household employment surveys and non-farm payroll data have grown since the pandemic. Before 2020, those lines tracked together. Now they’re diverging—badly. That means the BLS isn’t accurately counting how many people are working, or even how many jobs exist.
"We get this overly optimistic headline, and then the revisions come in and quietly erase hundreds of thousands of jobs,” Antoni explained. "This isn’t just a glitch—it’s a pattern.” He said that over the last year, nearly every monthly jobs number has been revised downward, a clear sign of positive bias in the initial data. The bigger problem? These inflated numbers shape public opinion and policy in real time, long before the truth comes out.
He also pointed out a quiet but meaningful shift happening under President Trump: for the first time in years, native-born Americans are seeing the lion’s share of new job growth. In fact, from July 2024 to July 2025, two million new jobs went to native-born workers—while employment among foreign-born workers actually fell. "That’s a massive reversal from the Biden years,” Antoni noted. "All of the net job growth under Biden went to foreign-born labor.”
That trend is critical. It signals that Trump’s America First labor agenda is starting to take root again, even if the data is still being filtered through the fog of a bureaucracy resistant to change.
Antoni credited War Room with keeping the pressure on: "This show has been on this issue for four years. That kind of consistency matters. It creates awareness, and it builds accountability.” According to him, no mainstream outlet has put this kind of spotlight on BLS manipulation, which makes War Room a critical weapon in the fight for transparency.
"This is why War Room is so powerful,” Antoni said. "Because we talk about things before they become common knowledge. And that shapes the narrative.”
This isn’t just economic reporting—it’s a call for operational control. Until Trump’s administration gets trusted personnel back inside agencies like BLS, the public will keep getting cooked numbers and false confidence. But thanks to platforms like War Room, the mask is slipping, and the truth is making its way into the light.
With the 2026 midterms on the horizon, Americans would do well to pay attention—not just to what’s said, but who’s saying it and who’s holding the line.
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