The firing drew backlash from economists and others fearing that such a move will undermine trust in the key economic data in the future.

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

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Kristen Welker confronted National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Meet the Press over President Donald Trump's firing of the top jobs data official this week.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, went a step further, calling McEntarfer’s dismissal “the stuff of fascist dictatorships.” A statement by “The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” co-signed by ...

President Donald Trump on Friday (Saturday in Manila) fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking weak scorecard of the US job market, accusing her without evidence of ...

Tom Fitzgerald sits down with Wendy Benjaminson, a senior editor at Bloomberg, to discuss President Trump calling for the ...

Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, says an investigation into the firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...

President Trump's removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer has sparked controversy, with critics arguing ...

The president responded to the lackluster July jobs report by directing his team to fire the chief of the Bureau of Labor ...

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), who President Trump fired following a dismal jobs report, said it was the “honor of my life” to serve in ...