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White House searches for a new BLS chief with 'credibility' and 'experience'

Trump fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he was unhappy with a weaker-than-expected July jobs ...
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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency

Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...

Who is Erika McEntarfer? Why did Donald Trump fire the U.S. Labor Statistics Chief amid the jobs report row?

Trump fires BLS head Erika McEntarfer over "rigged" jobs report, raising concerns about economic data integrity and agency independence.
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Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

Who is Erika McEntarfer fired by Donald Trump as head of Labor Statistics department? Why was she asked to step down?

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs ...

Former Trump statistics chief slams Friday firing of Erika McEntarfer

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...
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Trump fired BLS chief Erika McEntarfer after weak job numbers without offering solid evidence

President Trump’s economic team is now trying to defend his sudden decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor ...
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‘Wanna-be king’: Democrats fume at Trump move to oust BLS head

Trump accused BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer, an appointee of former President Biden, of skewing job numbers in the latest report, which showed the U.S. adding only 73,000 jobs last month and ...