Trump fires labor stats head after shaky jobs report.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McEntarfer, after the agency released a lower-than-expected July jobs report and revised May's and June's numbers downwards. The BLS reported that nonfarm payrolls increased by 73,000 in July, below Dow Jones’s estimated gain of 100,000 jobs.
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