From Washington Examiner: President Donald Trump said Friday that he has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just hours after new employment numbers produced by the agency showed major downward revisions from previous months.
The move comes the same day that the BLS released its latest jobs report for July, a report that caused markets to sink and raised questions about the health of the labor market.
The economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.2%. More notably, the report included some major downward revisions to the number of jobs created in the past two months.
Trump announced the firing on his Truth Social platform.
Trump wrote:
I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being Produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY.
She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
He later added:
In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!
McEntarfer, who has been the commissioner of the BLS since 2024. He said in the message posted to Truth Social that the firing is effective immediately.
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