Trump Fires BLS Commissioner

[MonkMode]

• President Donald Trump on Friday fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.
  
• "We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY," Trump posted on Truth Social.
  
• The stunning move came the same day that the BLS reported a gain of just 73,000 nonfarm jobs in July, below market expectations.
  

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-er...fired.html

Nobody is manipulating this survey to make Trump look bad!

This move shows Trump has become very unhinged.

It shows he suffers from delusions of persecution.

It shows he will fire any government employee who won’t lie for him.

I couldn’t find this subject posted yet, but if someone beat me to it, so be it.

[quintessentone]

I suspect she was using the LEHD data set as per usual and I think I see another court case on the horizon for Trump.

"McEntarfer took a position as a labor economist at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies (CES).[sup][5][/sup] She was promoted to senior supervisory economist for the Labor Markets section of the CES. She focused on employment, promotion patterns, and earnings of U.S. workers, particularly using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data set which has matched data on employers and employees.[sup][6][/sup]
 In periods away from the Census Bureau, McEntarfer had been on the economic staff of the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy in 2008–2010, and immediately before her appointment to the BLS had been on the nonpolitical staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers for a year."

Erika McEntarfer - Wikipedia

[xuenchen]

She fell right into the perfect trap. 
No wonder Democrats have been screaming about the "Economy" for 2 weeks!
They knew a fake report was coming from a planted operative 
Watch now how many people that were always screaming about the government MSM will now trust the government MSM 

[AngryOldBrewer]

She fell right into the perfect trap. 
No wonder Democrats have been screaming about the "Economy" for 2 weeks!
They knew a fake report was coming from a planted operative 
Watch now how many people that were always screaming about the government MSM will now trust the government MSM 

You. Took. The. Bait.
Don't like the numbers cuz they make you look bad? Fire the person who gave you bad numbers and blame the....wait for it .... Democrats. Lame authoritarian. Now hire another Fox News shill who will give you (and America) any numbers you want ? ? ? 

New guy: numbers look bad sir
Trump: make them good numbers 
New guy: yes sir, what do I tell America 
Trump: bad numbers are actually good numbers and forget about Epstein 
New guy: yes sir

Our new leader is so awesome ?

[xuenchen]

You. Took. The. Bait.
Don't like the numbers cuz they make you look bad? Fire the person who gave you bad numbers and blame the....wait for it .... Democrats. Lame authoritarian. Now hire another Fox News shill who will give you (and America) any numbers you want ? ? ? 

New guy: numbers look bad sir
Trump: make them good numbers 
New guy: yes sir, what do I tell America 
Trump: bad numbers are actually good numbers and forget about Epstein 
New guy: yes sir

Our new leader is so awesome ?

Democrats are the ones insanely worried about numbers. 
Looks like You really fell for ALL of it 
Look closer at the actual unemployment applications and see why the other fake numbers are fake 

"Cheat'nz Eazy"

[AngryOldBrewer]

Democrats are the ones insanely worried about numbers. 
Looks like You really fell for ALL of it 
Look closer at the actual unemployment applications and see why the other fake numbers are fake 

"Cheat'nz Eazy"
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At this point you show proof. If it's so easy, why not show us? Prove the guy that got fired cheated as you called it.

[Astyanax]

Well, after last week's premature victory lap, the latest jobs data news must have been a bit... deflating. I guess he and his supporters have to say something. So apparently he doesn't believe in 'the numbers' now.

Anyway, here's the latest, for the few here not wearing blindfolds and the earplugs.
 

Then came the new economic data. This morning, the BLS released its monthly jobs report, showing that the economy added just 73,000 new jobs last month—well below the 104,000 that forecasters had expected—and that unemployment rose slightly, to 4.2 percent. More important, the new report showed that jobs numbers for the previous two months had been revised down considerably after the agency received a more complete set of responses from the businesses it surveys monthly. What had been reported as a strong two-month gain of 291,000 jobs was revised down to a paltry 33,000. What had once looked like a massive jobs boom ended up being a historically weak quarter of growth.
 
Even that might be too rosy a picture. All the net gains of the past three months came from a single sector, health care, without which the labor market would have lost nearly 100,000 jobs. That’s concerning because health care is one of the few sectors that is mostly insulated from broader economic conditions: People always need it, even during bad times. (The manufacturing sector, which tariffs are supposed to be boosting, has shed jobs for three straight months.) Moreover, the new numbers followed an inflation report released by the Commerce Department yesterday that found that the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of price growth had picked up in June and remained well above the central bank’s 2 percent target. (The prior month’s inflation report was also revised upward to show a slight increase in May.) Economic growth and consumer spending also turned out to have fallen considerably compared with the first half of 2024. Taken together, these economic reports are consistent with the stagflationary environment that economists were predicting a few months ago: mediocre growth, a weakening labor market, and rising prices. 

Source dated 1 Aug 2025

[KrustyKrab]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/...r-AA1pc1Ez

No one was complaining when the biden administration did it. Where was the faux outrage then?  The party covered it up until they were outed.  
 
“Revised Data Exposes “Overstated” Job Creation Claims by Harris-Biden Admin, Revealing 818,000 Nonexistent Jobs”


“Revised figures reveal a significant overstatement in the Harris-Biden administration's job creation claims, with 818,000 fewer jobs than initially reported—marking the largest downward adjustment in 15 years.”

”This revision indicates a monthly overcount of 68,000 jobs, including notable discrepancies in sectors such as manufacturing, with 115,000 fewer jobs, trade, transportation, and utilities down by 104,000, and construction jobs reduced by 45,000.”

”The administration's previous claims of job creation largely reflect a recovery of positions lost during the pandemic rather than new employment opportunities.”

[Kwaka]

For how this has played out, kept the discussion on labor rate and inflation as for why interest rates are staying high. 

As for what is really going on, is the trillion dollar interest payment causing some problems as the Fed is scrambling for money to fill the hole? But when the Fed has a few of those money making machines, who is profiting from high rates, the banks.

[xuenchen]

Well, after last week's premature victory lap, the latest jobs data news must have been a bit... deflating. I guess he and his supporters have to say something. So apparently he doesn't believe in 'the numbers' now.

Anyway, here's the latest, for the few here not wearing blindfolds and the earplugs.
 

Yeah, purposely deflated by pencil defect