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President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...
This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.
Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...
President Donald Trump's recent phone interview with CNBC was filled with lies about his jobs report and racism towards migrants.
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits ticked up to the highest level in a month last week ...
The Trump administration is under fire after replacing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a major jobs data revision. Joe Scarborough pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on ...
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics carries reputational risks for the ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...
The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...
President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a widely respected economist ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...