Washington (AP) – “depressing”.
“CRAZY!!”
In this way, the employees of the Bureau of Labor Statistics reacted after President Donald Trump released his Commissioner Erika Mcentarfer after a dark job report on August 1 had undermined the claims of the White House due to an economic boom.
The e -mails received by The Associated Press as part of the law on the Freedom of Information Act indicate that an agency with little of the corrupt partiality that Trump had claimed little of the corrupt partiality. He described the report “Phony” and “Maniped” after 73,000 jobs were added in July, and after downward processing, which showed that 258,000 jobs were added in May and June than before.
After dismissal of the Commissioner, the BLS employees spoke about the importance of the exact figures and the professional integrity in the generation of data that are subject to accounts for the measurement of the economy and the consideration of the chosen civil servants for the performance of the nation.
Officials of the agency tried to gather morality by focusing on their upcoming task than external economists wondered whether Trump had affected the credibility of reports on jobs, inflation and other crucial economic indicators. Without evidence, the president said that the numbers should make him and other Republicans look bad – to impair his recent efforts to impair the functions of Executive Branch agencies, including the Federal Reserve.
“This message is suddenly, but our mission is unchanged – to provide the nation high -quality data,” said William Wiatrowski, the incumbent commissioner, to the employees in an e -mail. “Thanks for all the good work you do.”
A deputy commissioner asked the employees to hold out through a ship crew after the loss of his captain.
“We may have lost our captain, but the ship will not go down,” wrote the deputy commissioner. “We will neither hit an iceberg and sink on the sea floor nor on a low-lying shoe. We are not rudderless. We stay … guided by our mission to provide gold standard statistics that can trust the public.”
Mentarfer for her part remained stoically to the employees in her e -mail and decided not to live about her dismissal of the president. Instead, she thanked BLS employees for the importance of her work.
“Our data moves the markets because this is one of the prompt and most precise information on economic conditions that companies and political decision -makers have,” she wrote. “BLS data influence the decisions of the FED, the president, the congress and millions of companies and households. The work of this agency is of crucial importance for the US economy.”
The White House claims that Mctarfer was removed because the size of the revisions indicated that the monthly job report was incorrect. As part of each job report, the BLS revises the data of the previous months twice. There is also an annual benchmark revision after receiving more complete survey information, an effort that should compensate for in good time with correct compensation.
Trump announced on Monday that he would nominate EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the BLS.
Antoni announced Fox News Digital in an interview before the announcement that the BLS should “issue the monthly job reports” due to inaccuracies and instead offer quarterly updates.
When the press spokesman Karoline Leavitt was asked when the White House was assessed on Tuesday whether the monthly job report would continue to be published, the government hoped that this would be the case.
“I think that’s the plan and that’s hope,” said Leavitt.
