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Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...
Tom Fitzgerald sits down with Wendy Benjaminson, a senior editor at Bloomberg, to discuss President Trump calling for the ...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said on Sunday he would support an investigation into President Trump’s firing of the ...
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), who President Trump fired following a dismal jobs report, said it was the “honor of my life” to serve in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top White House economic advisers on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's firing of the head of the ...
Former Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics William Beach criticizes the President for accusing the bureau of ...
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, went a step further, calling McEntarfer’s dismissal “the stuff of fascist dictatorships.” A statement by “The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” co-signed by ...
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Trump fires US labor official over data

President Donald Trump on Friday (Saturday in Manila) fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking weak scorecard of the US job market, accusing her without evidence of ...
Kristen Welker confronted National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Meet the Press over President Donald Trump's firing of the top jobs data official this week.
Kevin Hassett, one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving economic advisers, on Sunday defended the president’s decision ...
The firing drew backlash from economists and others fearing that such a move will undermine trust in the key economic data in the future.
President Trump's removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer has sparked controversy, with critics arguing ...