Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers
President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the
commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused,
without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for
"political purposes."
The BLS' monthly labor report Friday showed that the US economy added
only 73,000 jobs in July, far below expectations. It also sharply
revised down the employment growth that had been previously reported
in May and June - by a combined 258,000 jobs.
After the revisions, the jobs report showed the weakest pace of hiring
for any three-month period since the pandemic recession in 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-number-fire
This shows a rapidly slowing economy.
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