President Trump's budget director claims the Obama administration was "manipulating" jobs data. Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that he has long thought the previous administration framed data to make the unemployment rate "look smaller than it actually was." "What you should really look at is the number of jobs created," Mulvaney said on "State of the Union." Trump repeatedly railed on the unemployment rate during Obama's time in office as a "hoax." The agency has used the same method for calculating the unemployment rate since 1940.

Source: CNN March 12, 2017 16:41 UTC