President Donald Trump made his name as a celebrity businessman by firing people in dramatic fashion. But taking the same approach as president doesn’t always work out so well.
Trump just fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a division of the Labor Department that compiles and publishes data about the economy, including jobs figures. In an unprecedented move, he axed BLS boss Erika McEntarfer, who was appointed by then-President Joe Biden in 2024, even though her term wasn’t set to expire until 2028. Trump and his allies are justifying this unusual step by claiming that McEntarfer was a Democratic loyalist who cooked the books to sabotage Trump with the latest weak jobs report.
There’s just one problem with this: It simply isn’t true.
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