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Did DOGE contribute to the BLS jobs report that Trump hated? Economist Mark Zandi thinks so
E lon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
Trump says he doesn’t trust the jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
Trump stokes conspiracies about jobs data, as White House defends firing BLS chief
The comments are the latest effort by the White House to undercut economic data that does not fit within Trump's political ...
Fact check: Trump’s claim that pre-election jobs revisions helped Democrats
The jobs report for July revealed that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.
Fact Check Team: Politicization or poor performance? Trump fires BLS commissioner
President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...
Whoever Trump picks to lead BLS is in for a ride
President Donald Trump’s firing Friday of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — a Biden appointee who’d been confirmed with overwhelming bipartisan support — pierced BLS’s reputation and created ...
In Rejecting the Jobs Report, Trump Follows His Own Playbook of Discrediting Unfavorable Data
And on Friday, when the July jobs report revisions showed a distressed economy, Trump had an answer: He fired the official in ...
US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief
Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has exposed deepening fissures within a data agency vital to measuring the strength of the world’s largest economy. The US president ...