Tonight, President Trump fires the top official responsible for labor statistics, just hours after a weaker than expected jobs report.

Then convicted sex trafficker Galane Maxwell is transferred to a minimum security prison camp with no explanation from the Justice Department.

Plus, the corporation that backs PBS and NPR shuts down. Weeks after Congress

cut its funding at the request of the White House as the 11th hour gets underway on this Friday

night. Good evening. I'm Antonia Hilton in tonight for Stephanie Rule. It is day 194 of the second Trump administration,

and it was not a good day for the Trump economy. On Wall Street, the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ,

all lost more than a full percentage point. The sell-off comes after Trump rolled out a list

of new tariff rates on countries that haven't reached trade deals with the U.S.

Those new rates

take effect one week from today. But the big headline, the real story, was the labor market.

Economists were set to see a week July jobs report today, but it was even worse than expected.

It was so bad, so bad that Donald Trump immediately found someone to fire.

The U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July. But the report also revised the numbers for the previous

two months. The original job number for that period was 291,000 jobs. According to the new

revisions, only 19,000 jobs were actually added. That means that

the job market over the last three months is the weakest it's been since the beginning of the

pandemic. And that is what apparently led Donald Trump to turn and shoot the messenger,

just hours after the report came out.

Trump posted that he was moving to fire the commissioner of labor statistics because she

was appointed by former President Biden.

He also wrote, without a shred of evidence, that he believes the job numbers were rigged

to make him look bad.

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