President Trump instructed his team on Friday to relieve the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after accusing a gloomy job report, which he accused the representative of the former President Biden.
Trump said about the truth that the Commissioner Erika Mcentarfer had “achieved jobs for the jobs” before the 2024 elections in order to promote former Vice President Kamala Harris’s White House offer.
An administrative officer later confirmed the discharge.
Trump quoted work statistics revisions during the bid administration, which increased the job figures before the elections. The job report published on Friday showed a significant downturn during the administration of Trump in May and June, which indicates that the United States has added 258,000 fewer jobs in these months than originally reported.
“Nobody can be wrong?” Said Trump. “We need precise jobs.
Mctarfer was nominated by biden in 2023 and confirmed by the Senate in 2024 as the 16th Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is part of the Ministry of Labor. It was confirmed in a cross-party 86-8 voice in the Senate. Vice President Vance and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio in particular, who were both senators at the time, agreed for their nomination.
The president suggested that the job report was politically motivated, an argument that he also made when he scolded the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell because of non -lowering interest rates.
“The economy is booming under” Trump “despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with interest rates where they reduced them twice, and essentially shortly before the presidential election I assume that they are chosen as a selected” Kamala “.
In a second social media contribution, Trump lent a label when he denied his loss of election in 2020 and described the latest job report as “manipulated”.
“In my opinion, today’s jobs have been manipulated to look bad for the Republicans and me,” said Trump.
The white house earlier on Friday admitted that the job report in which the United States only added 73,000 jobs in July was obscure.
“This job report is not ideal. There is no” “The downward revision reflects some anomal factors. First, about 60 percent of the downward revision are due to the quirks of the seasonal adaptation process.”
Trump also submitted insults in Powell on Friday because he did not lower the interest rates and asked the central bank board to take control of control. He also threatened to fire Powell, and last month GOP legislator said that he would move before withdrawing soon.
This story was updated at 3:55 p.m.
