President Trump's jobs tweet might have broken federal rules

President Donald Trump has been tweeting about the economy a lot lately, and Aug 4 was no different. But one of his tweets caught our eye. "Excellent Jobs Numbers just released - and I have only just begun. Many job stifling regulations continue to fall. Movement back to USA!" the President tweeted. Notice he said the jobs numbers had just been released. That's true; the Bureau of Labor Statistics had published them just 15 minutes earlier. That puts President Trump's tweet in violation of a federal rule (page three). It says, in part, when federal data is released, "employees of the Executive Branch shall not comment publicly on the data until at least one hour after the official release time."