The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not be releasing the January jobs report as scheduled Friday due to the partial government shutdown, a department spokesman confirmed Monday.
“The Employment Situation release for January 2026 will not be released as scheduled on Friday, February 6, 2026. The release will be rescheduled upon the resumption of government funding,” Emily Liddel, associate commissioner of the BLS, said in a statement.
Following last year’s record shutdown that stretched into early November, the bureau also was forced to delay a number of its routine releases and was just catching up from that incident. The BLS also releases the consumer price index, import and export data and multiple other labor- and consumer-related data pieces.
It was not known if the Commerce Department also would face delays in its reporting due to the impasse in Washington.
The decision comes ahead of a busy week for economic data that would have culminated with the nonfarm payrolls release, also known as the unemployment situation. The report includes a count of how many hires businesses report, which provides the headline nonfarm payrolls count, as well as a household survey of how many people report holding jobs, which is used to tabulate the unemployment rate.
