Discrepancies in federal statistics have led some to speculate that metrics may not be nonpartisan. Errors included the Bureau of Labor Statistics overestimating second-quarter job growth, the Census Bureau attributing larger populations to blue states and undercounting red states in a reapportionment year, and the disappearance of 50,000 asylum applications.
From Just the News:
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 1,047,000 jobs in the second quarter of 2022. The Biden White House consistently highlighted this metric in the run-up to the November midterms as evidence of an economic rebound under the president's leadership. ... The 2022 midterm contests were the first to follow the reapportionment of congressional seats and redrawing of district lines as a result of the most recent U.S. Census. The decennial population survey was marred by large, consequential counting errors, with officials from the Census Bureau admitting it overcounted the populations of Democratic-leaning states while undercounting those of Republican-leaning ones. As a result, several population-losing blue states retained congressional seats to which they were not entitled at the expense of growing Republican states that merited greater representation. ... The Syracuse University-affiliated Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) in December announced that the loss of roughly 50,000 pending asylum applications allowed the Biden administration's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) to "falsely report that its asylum backlog had been reduced this past year when in fact it had markedly grown."
