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,

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.

President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on Friday. The reason cited, though it lacked evidence, was that last week's job report was "rigged." Katharine Abraham, who held the position from 1993 until 2001,