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A Telling Moment Has Revealed the Path Trump Is on, and It’s Scary
UNITED STATES, AUG 5 – Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a revised jobs report showed 258,000 fewer jobs added over two months, raising concerns about politicizing federal data.
- Last week, President Donald Trump ousted Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer and accused her of manipulating and 'faking' the jobs report numbers.
- Amid frustration over revised job figures, Trump was embarrassed by the data that cut 258,000 jobs for May and June, prompting his firing of McEntarfer.
- The report revealed just 73,000 jobs were added in July, with May’s jobs additions cut by 125,000 and June’s by 133,000.
- Reacting to the firing, Robert Reich said 'This is serious, worrisome,' and some Republican lawmakers also criticized Trump’s move on Tuesday.
- Undermining the bureau’s mission sets a dangerous precedent, as William Beach, former BLS Commissioner, warns it escalates Trump’s interference with federal data.
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Sydney Morning Herald
A telling moment has revealed the path Trump is on, and it’s scary
President Trump’s firing last week of the head of the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight out of the playbook of autocracies, Peter Hartcher says. And history has told us what happens when a leader starts controlling the facts.
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In Firing the BLS Chief, Trump Escalates His Administration’s War on Data
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Trump’s War on the Truth: Robert Reich on Firing of BLS Head & Push to Replace Fed Chair
We speak to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about how President Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report, undermines a key agency. Trump claimed, without offering any evidence, that the numbers were “rigged” in order to make him look bad. The BLS report showed just 73,000 jobs were added in July and that far fewer jobs had been created in May and June than
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