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Joe: Trump “proves how wrong it was” to fire BLS chief with every comment

President Trump is facing criticism after firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics just hours after a disappointing ...

Trump economic adviser fires back at NBC host over 'shooting the messenger' claim about BLS firing

WH Economic Council director Kevin Hassett was pressed repeatedly on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the labor ...
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Trump says he'll fire BLS head over "faked" numbers. Here's why there are revisions

July's jobs report came with stunning revisions to data that the U.S. Department of Labor had previously reported for May and ...

Trump’s Bid To Fire BLS Commissioner ‘Preposterously Stupid And Deeply Dangerous’

"There is absolutely no chance that the BLS commissioner manipulated the jobs and unemployment data to hurt Donald Trump," a ...

Trump’s Firing of BLS Chief Prompts Democrats to Propose Bill Protecting Stats-Agency Heads

The bill’s path forward is doubtful given that it would need to earn at least some Republican support in the House and Senate ...

GOP mocks House Democrats’ request for a hearing on why Trump fired the BLS commissioner

The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional ...

Why jobs revisions that led Trump to fire statistics head were so huge

The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn't rigged data).

How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data

President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled ...