US Edition‘Wanna-be king’: Democrats fume at Trump move to oust BLS head
UNITED STATES, AUG 2 – President Trump fired BLS head Erika McEntarfer after July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added and prior months revised down by 258,000, alleging political manipulation without evidence.
- On August 1 and 2, 2025, President Donald Trump dismissed the head of the agency responsible for labor market data following a disappointing employment report.
- Trump accused McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, of manipulating job numbers to harm Republicans and demanded her immediate dismissal without presenting evidence.
- The July report showed just 73,000 jobs added and revised May and June numbers down by 258,000, signaling a slowing economy and fueling calls for Federal Reserve rate cuts.
- Senators and experts criticized the firing as politicizing the BLS and economic data, warning it damages trust and equating it to "firing the messenger" for reporting bad news.
- Deputy Commissioner William Wiatrowski became acting chief, and the firing raised concerns about presidential overreach and undermining the credibility of official labor statistics.
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Editorial: Rigged in BLS’ future
If there’s one thing Donald Trump knows better than any president in United States history it is “rigged” numbers. The President fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday, saying the monthly jobs report was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans and ME look bad” in an announcement on his Truth Social account.
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The Gateway Pundit“You’re Fired!” Trump Was Right: BLS Commissioner Inflated Job Numbers to Benefit Biden and Harris
(The Gateway Pundit)—President Trump dismissed Erika McEntarfer, the now-former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after rightfully accusing her of deliberately inflating employment numbers ahead of the election to boost Kamala Harris’s campaign. He pointed to a falsely reported “all-time high” in job figures that was later revised down by nearly one million jobs, an error he described as the most severe in over 50 years. Supp…
By Jeff Zeleny, Alayna Treene and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Donald Trump was furious at the July job report that pointed to a significant slowdown in the economy. Then, he went to one of his usual grudges and pointed to the statistic in charge of tabulating the monthly figures, which was named by former President Joe Biden. Unlike the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president has…
Republicans turn on Trump over ‘Deep State’ firing: he ‘ought to grow up’
Republican lawmakers and others have turned on President Donald Trump after the president fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a less-than-stellar jobs report last week. Trump had slammed McEntarfer, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, accusing her of manipulating jobs figures to fit a political agenda, the Daily Mail reported.
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