A small group of GOP senators are seeking answers following a major downward revision to US payroll numbers made by President Biden’s Department of Labor.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced the biggest such adjustment since 2009 in releasing data on its estimation errors Thursday that showed it overstated job gains by some 818,000. 

This revision means that true job growth over the 12 months ended in March was closer to 30% less than signaled earlier, which stirred anxiety about an economy that is getting little traction.

Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), who chairs the inquiry, argued for getting to the bottom of whether figures had been doctored in order to help the Harris – Biden administration. 

“Using taxpayer dollars to mislead the public for political gain is an outrageous betrayal of trust and one of the reasons Americans have lost all faith in this Administration,” Marshall told The Post.

“Manipulating the numbers to spin a false narrative while people are struggling to afford gas and groceries is not only dishonest — it’s insulting.”

That is the largest revision since 2009, when employment estimates were overstated by 824,000 positions. The revised data now show that 2.1 million jobs were created in the year ending March 2024, rather than the previously reported 2.9m — a reduction of almost a third.

Besides the total job number, they want specifics on how many jobs were rebounded from the pandemic-induced losses and how those further split between full- and part-time work as well as new hires in government. They have given Secretary Su until September 9 to reply.

The old guidelines have also been criticized by other top Republicans, including former President Donald Trump. 

Most notably, Trump decided to tell the administration off on Jobs Data; and took that frustration out on Truth Social when he said “MASSIVE SCANDAL! The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America.”

“New Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the Administration PADDED THE NUMBERS with an extra 818,000 Jobs that DO NOT EXIST, AND NEVER DID.”

Julie Su has been acting labor secretary since March of last year, and the nomination only moved forward this week under an agreement among Senate leaders that gave Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) a vote on one FERC nominee while moving Fantetti ahead in return.