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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency

Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...

Trump’s BLS Firing Tests Wall Street’s Reliance on Government Data

Some fear a decline in the world-leading economic statistics underpinning U.S. markets ...

Republicans turn on Trump over ‘Deep State’ firing: he ‘ought to grow up’

Trump accused McEntarfer of intentionally over-reporting job growth before the 2024 presidential election in a bid to help ...
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Trump calls fired BLS commissioner's job numbers the 'biggest miscalculations in over 50 years'

"I was just informed that our Country's 'Jobs Numbers' are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the ...
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Former BLS commissioner says it’s not possible to rig jobs numbers

On Friday, President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the July jobs report ...

Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support

Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, ...

Trump defends firing Biden-appointed statistician over ‘fake political’ jobs numbers

Trump took a page from the 2020 playbook to explain his firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer.
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America’s Top Labor Board Official Just Gave Trump Everything He Needed to Pressure Fed Chair Powell To Lower Interest Rates — Then He Fired Her

President Donald Trump has dismissed Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), following the ...