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UNITED STATES, AUG 5 – Trump fired BLS Chief Erika McEntarfer after a July report showed only 73,000 new jobs, sparking backlash from experts who say there is no evidence of data manipulation.
- On August 6, 2025, President Donald Trump removed Erika McEntarfer, the leader of the agency responsible for labor market data, following a disappointing report for July that recorded just 73,000 new jobs added.
- Trump acted amid an ongoing dispute over job data accuracy, intensified by an unprecedented 818,000-job downward revision covering April 2023 to March 2024, which he claimed was politically motivated despite no evidence.
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics, overseen by the Labor Department, collects employment data from roughly 120,000 businesses and 630,000 worksites, and revisions have long been part of its process with average initial errors around 57,000 jobs.
- Trump labeled the job numbers 'rigged' and criticized the agency as broken and corrupt, while experts and former officials confirmed McEntarfer could not alter data and the BLS operates nonpartisan protocols.
- The firing sparked bipartisan criticism, raised concerns about the agency's independence, and may undermine public trust in federal economic data amid political pressures influencing perceptions of job reports.
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No one wants to be Donald Trump’s bad news bearer in the latest cartoon from Phil Hands
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Leaning Left5Leaning Right4Center5Last UpdatedBias Distribution36% Left, 36% Center
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- 36% of the sources lean Left, 36% of the sources are Center
36% Center
L 36%
C 36%
R 29%
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