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Donald Trump, had made reducing regulation, and especially environmental regulation, a key message in their campaigns in 2016, and Paul Ryan had issued a plan called "Better Way" that laid out methods to reduce regulation, including use of the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress and the President to force federal agencies to retract regulations that they judge go beyond what the law requires.^[18][19] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had also claimed that the rule would decrease the number of coal-related jobs.^[20]

When the Stream Protection Rule was published, it was immediately challenged in court by the Republican state attorneys general of several states, as well as the coal mining companyMurray Energy.^[17] The states challenging the bill were Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming, all of which are coal-mining states.^[21]When the new Congress met in 2017, controlled by Republicans in both houses, a coalition made up of 124 organizations, including Greenpeace, the National Women's Law Center, the Center for Biological Diversity and the AFL–CIO, sent an open letter urging Congress not to overturn the Rule.^[9]

In early February 2017, Congress voted to use the Congressional Review Act to pass a "resolution of disapproval" to revoke the Stream Protection Rule.^[18][22] The resolution to repeal the bill passed in the House by a 228–194 vote and in the Senate by a vote of 54–45, largely on party lines, with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats voting against.^[23][24] According to the Center for American Progress, the 27 representatives that sponsored or co-sponsored the review of the rules received nearly $500 million from mining interests in 2016.^[25] Trump signed H.J. Res 38 on February 16, 2017, overturning the Stream Protection Rule.^[26][27

When he signed the resolution repealing the rule,Trump predicted that striking down the rule would save thousands of U.S. mining-related jobs.^{[20][26][28][29]} Republican Bill Johnson, the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district and sponsor for the disapproval measure, stated, "Make no mistake about it, this Obama administration rule is not designed to protect streams. Instead, it was an effort to regulate the coal mining industry right out of business."^[30]...

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MMA

November 20, 2025, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria

Later in the program, a guest touched on the downward revisions, mentioning the changes to attack the BLS, much like Fox has done in the past — but didn’t mention that the August jobs numbers had turned negative.

Bartiromo continued promoting the jobs report as “a good report” on America’s Newsroom, saying that it shows “an economy that is growing, an economy that is producing jobs.”

Later on America’s Newsroom, Fox Business correspondent Edward Lawrence said: “This could be considered a blowout report.”

On Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Jackie DeAngelis said, “This is a good report … by all accounts,” and added that the four-year high unemployment rate “is not a great headline for the president,” and that “people will look at that and maybe think the economy isn’t doing well, but it actually is.”

While Fox personalities were praising this jobs report, they didn’t mention that it showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August. From the September jobs report:

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for July was revised down by 7,000, from +79,000 to +72,000, and the change for August was revised down by 26,000, from +22,000 to -4,000. With these revisions, employment in July and August combined is 33,000 lower than previously reported.

As a reminder, Fox was so pessimistic about the employment situation in August that, before that month’s report came out, network personalities began excusing an expected weak month of job growth by echoing President Donald Trump’s attack on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its data production.

Crucially, and contrary to Fox's spin, these September data and prior month revisions are not giving a snapshot of the economy right now.

The data for September predates the historic government shutdown, which shaved billions of dollars from the economy and is likely to have coincided with significant job losses — the payroll firm ADP estimated the private sector was losing 11,250 per week in October.

And due to complications from the government shutdown, the Labor Department has canceled the official BLS employment situation for October.

Some economic experts have also pointed out that the September jobs report was, in fact, not particularly strong.

New York Times chief economics correspondent Ben Casselman noted that “this is the highest the unemployment rate has been since October 2021, when the economy was still emerging from the COVID pandemic.”

Harvard University economics professor Jason Furman called it “a weakish jobs report,” noting that the “3-month average is only 62K” jobs created.

Economics writer Joey Politano wrote: “The unemployment rate for Black Americans remained at 7.5% in September, the highest level since 2021 and a nearly 1.9% increase from the start of this year.”

Fox itself had attacked President Joe Biden over one September jobs report during his term of office that featured significantly more job gains than the most recent data. In 2023, Fox Business host Charles Payne declared that the 336,000 job gains initially estimated for that September — nearly three times more than in this jobs report — “was not a strong jobs report.”