Senator Elizabeth Warren intensified pressure on the White House on Thursday to release September’s jobs report despite a partial government shutdown, telling colleagues and staffers that withheld data would undermine public trust and exacerbate market uncertainty. At a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee appearance on Sept. 4, Warren said the public “deserves transparency” and urged the administration to allow the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish its monthly labor-market snapshot.

An aide to the Senate Banking Committee said former BLS employees had informed Warren’s office that the September labor data had been collected and was likely ready for release. “The data are in hand,” the committee aide said, adding that the agency’s normal publication schedule was being disrupted by the shutdown. The Bureau of Economic Analysis, which compiles other key metrics such as gross domestic product and trade figures, has explicitly warned that the suspension will prevent the release of scheduled BEA economic data during the furlough period.

The standoff matters beyond Washington. U.S. employment figures are among the most closely watched metrics for investors, domestic policymakers and central banks worldwide. Missing or delayed data injects volatility into markets already sensitive to signs of slowing growth and complicates decisions at the Federal Reserve and among international counterparts who use U.S. releases as inputs for monetary policy and global risk assessments.

“We depend on a reliable flow of information to price risk,” said a senior market analyst in New York. “When official releases are interrupted, private forecasts move center stage, and that increases uncertainty across asset classes.”

Warren’s demand comes as partisan battles over the shutdown have broadened into a contest over information management. CNN has previously documented instances in which White House statements about policy and the positions of Democrats were inaccurate, a dynamic that critics say heightens the need for independent, timely federal statistics. Administration officials have defended their handling of operations during the shutdown and have so far resisted extraordinary measures to publish furloughed agencies’ outputs.

Legal and procedural hurdles complicate any unilateral release of data. Federal agencies generally follow statutes and internal safeguards governing publication; circumventing those checks could raise questions about precedent and the independence of statistical agencies. Nevertheless, members of Congress from both parties have in past shutdowns urged exceptions for economic reporting, arguing that the public interest and market stability outweigh procedural constraints.

Internationally, foreign investors and governments pay close attention to U.S. labor figures. Delays can ripple through currency markets, trade negotiations and emerging-market capital flows, especially when uncertainty persists about U.S. policy direction. Economists say that even a short interruption can skew market expectations and feed a feedback loop of policy caution.

As the shutdown persists, the choice before the administration is both political and practical: maintain a hard line that ties data publication to funding negotiations, or permit independent statistical releases to preserve transparency and calm frayed markets. Warren and other lawmakers are betting the latter will prove harder to resist as economic anxiety mounts.