President Donald Trump posted a photo of a Council of Economic Advisers briefing on this morning's payroll numbers at 8:20 p.m. UTC on January 8, approximately 12 hours before the official 8:30 a.m. UTC release on January 9, according to an X post by economist Justin Wolfers shared between 3:46 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. UTC today. The X post stated the CEA receives such market-moving data confidentially on Thursday evenings. The image revealed numbers scheduled for public release at 8:30 a.m. this morning, per Wolfers' analysis posted in the past 29 minutes. Separately, an X post by JMRaasch during the same 29-minute window shared a video showing Brandon Phillips, advisor and former chief of staff to Rep. Mike Collins, punching a man in the face at a Washington, D.C., bar. Neither Collins' office nor Phillips responded to requests for comment, the post stated. Phillips and Collins are subjects of a congressional conduct probe.
