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Donald Trump, Bureau of Labor Statistics and jobs

Fox News on MSN · 1d

Trump fires labor official over weak jobs number, orders criminal probes of past opponents

Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the 73,000 job gain figure was rigged against Republicans.

TIME on MSN · 2d

Trump Fires Labor Statistics Chief After Jobs Report

President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a report that showed that the U.S. added fewer jobs in July than many economists had expected,

Associated Press News on MSN · 2d

In his own words: Trump’s comments over the past year on the jobs report

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before the 2024 election were manipulated to make him look bad.

Trump, Jobs and Economists

The Associated Press - Busines… · 19h

Trump Says He Doesn't Trust the Jobs Data, but Wall Street and Economists Do

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it

The Baltimore Sun · 1d

Economists push back on Trump’s assertion that July jobs data was ‘rigged’

Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner shakes public trust in government data. He said BLS staff members have

NBC Los Angeles · 1d

Fact check: No evidence for Trump's claims of ‘rigged' or ‘phony' job numbers

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, claiming the job numbers were “phony.

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Trump administration rolls back Elon Musk’s email telling federal employees to justify their jobs

Federal employees will no longer have to meet Elon Musk’s demand that they list their weekly accomplishments in an email or ...

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Donald Trump's hated jobs report might bring him good news

Though Trump rejects the results of the report, Friday's jobs figures could raise the chances that the Fed cuts rates next ...

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In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

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Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?

President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...

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Trump to announce Fed appointments soon; Bessent will stay in Treasury job

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would "shortly" announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve's ...

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Live updates: Global markets mostly gain after Trump’s tariffs and jobs report sent Wall Street tumbling

Global markets bounced back Monday after Wall Street's poor performance Friday following a weak jobs report and U.S.

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Trump’s rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire

When authoritarianism encroaches, apologists often present a strongman’s power grabs as rational — even imperative for the ...

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Donald Trump 'In Denial' About Job Figures, Economy—Nate Silver

Nate Silver is the founder of 538 and was one of the most prominent polling experts during last year's presidential election.

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