People who DO NOT see or act according to what ole’ Donald wants?
Have their jobs in jeporty….
This one just lost her’s….
(‘You Can’t handle the Truth!’)
Ah?
DOGE cut’s probably have not helped data collectin and analytsis either….
Question?
Will we be able to ‘trust’ the next report???
President Donald Trump on Friday said he ordered the dismissal of the official in charge of compiling basic statistics about the U.S. economy after the release of a soft jobs report that showed lackluster July employment growth and revealed large downward revisions for hiring in May and June.
Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was appointed to that role in 2024 by then-President Joe Biden. Commissioners serve four-year terms that often overlap with multiple presidential administrations. The commissioner before McEntarfer, the conservative economist William Beach, served in both the Biden and first Trump administrations.
Trump, who announced McEntarfer’s ouster on social media, criticized her as a Biden appointee overseeing what he falsely called “faked” jobs numbers. He said he would replace McEntarfer with someone “more competent and qualified.”
Without evidence, he alleged the jobs numbers had been manipulated for political purposes.
“In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,” he posted on his Truth Social site shortly after announcing that he would fire McEntarfer.
The firing came just hours after the BLS reported that the job market was far weaker than previously believed. Large cuts to earlier job counts erased 258,000 positions originally reported for May and June, marking the steepest two-month downward revision on record outside the pandemic. July figures were also below expectations, highlighting an economy struggling under new tariffs and aggressive immigration restrictions….
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“The president is just shooting the messenger, it’s not more complicated than that,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the right-leaning American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. “The data that were released today conformed in every way to the standards of past employment reports.”
Revisions to job reports are common. Economists said the recent outsize changes from previous months were less about individual failings and more a reflection of how the government gathers its data. Early versions of the jobs report rely on larger firms that respond quickly, while responses from smaller businesses — often more affected by economic headwinds — filter in later….
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Staffing shortages at the bureau are already fueling questions about the agency’s ability to accurately tabulate data on consumer prices.
“The president is risking material economic harm through his politicization of the BLS and of official government data,” said Michael Strain, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, who worked with McEntarfer in the early 2010s at the U.S. Census Bureau.
“It is imperative that businesses, households and investors believe that official government data are accurate and do not reflect any political bias,” Strain said. “Fortunately, that is true of the data, but by sowing doubt, President Trump is undermining the integrity of the information that businesses, investors and households rely on.”…
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“There is very blatant shock across the bureau,” the staffer added. “There is a fear that they’re going to appoint someone that will tell us that we can’t do our jobs.”….
Democrats condemned President Donald Trump’s call to fire the head of the Labor Department official in charge of producing jobs data after the latest report showed job growth lower than expected.
Trump’s social media post demanding the firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer was met with swift criticism from Democratic leaders, who accused Trump of blaming underwhelming economic data on the official rather than on policies they say contributed to worse economic conditions….
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The problem for Baghdad Bob Trumpublicans is private companies like GlassDoor are reporting the same slowdown in hiring.
Ten seconds after The ‘Don’ won ?
We where screwed….
As he has during his time as a Real Estate hustler?
He’s messing things up….
Bankruptcies, Civil fines , a criminal conviction, sexual misconduct situations, and riot on the capital….
Put ALL that history together with his serial lying and you can understand why he’s on Powell’s case (He hasn’t won that one, eh?)….
It’s so bad he fires the woman who reported he BAD REALITY….
Scott?
The guy LIVES on selling people BULL SHIT…
I DO NOT ACCEPT IT…..