bls erika mcentarfer - Search News

News

Trump, Erika McEntarfer and Bureau of Labor Statistics

Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that angered President Donald Trump.

PolitiFact · 1d

Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was nominated by Barack Obama.

POLITICO on MSN · 5h

Former Trump statistics chief slams Friday firing of Erika McEntarfer

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

3mon MSN

Ex-Obama adviser says Trump ‘way beyond’ Nixon after firing BLS commissioner

"This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism," Larry Summers said. "This is really scary stuff." ...

New York Magazine1d

Trump Fires BLS Commissioner Over Bad Jobs Report: How It Happened

When the economic news is bad, Trump thinks he can just shoot the messenger. Here’s how the firing played out, as well as ...

5hon MSN

BLS commissioner reacts to Trump firing

McEntarfer was nominated by Biden in 2023 and confirmed by the Senate in 2024 in a bipartisan 86-8 vote as the 16th ...

22mon MSN

Trump adviser defends labor official’s firing, deflects on how data was ‘rigged’

Kevin Hassett pointed to the scale of hiring data revisions when asked for evidence to support Trump’s claims that a jobs report was rigged to make him look bad.

Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.

Hide inaccessible results