Trump's "Government Shutdown Weighs on GDP" Claim Questioned Again for Possible Data Leak
BlockBeats News, February 20th: Donald Trump this morning local time in the United States, 40 minutes before the release of the U.S. GDP data, posted a message regarding the data falling short of expectations. The article stated, "The U.S. GDP has decreased by at least 2 percentage points due to the Democratic government shutdown."
Forty minutes later, the United States released the fourth-quarter GDP data for 2025, which was well below expectations, dropping from 4.4% to 1.4%, a decrease of 300 basis points.
On January 10th, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social social platform a chart containing key unpublished U.S. non-farm payroll data, a day earlier than the official release date, sparking market and public attention.
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