President Trump ordered the dismissal Friday of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), hours after the economic data collection agency released a report showing unemployment ticked up last month.

Irked by a steep downward revision to the jobs data, U.S. President Donald Trump recommended the firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, and on Sunday, he doubled down on his criticism of her.

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, directing his team to fire the former President Biden appointee. Trump blamed McEntarfer for the bad Friday jobs report,