Trump Defends Decision To Fire BLS Commisioner

The president said that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer "had the biggest miscalculations in over 50 years.”

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following an updated jobs report.

The move prompted controversy and Trump took to Truth Social to defend his decision.

The president said that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer “had the biggest miscalculations in over 50 years,” portraying Friday’s dismal jobs numbers as the latest example.

Trump alleged the leader did “the same thing just before the Presidential Election, when she lifted the numbers for jobs to an all time high. I then won the election, anyway, and she readjusted the numbers downward, calling it a mistake, of almost one million jobs. A scam!” He added that “she did it again, with another massive ‘correction,’ and got fired!”

The move came after the Labor Department released data showing the U.S. only added 73,000 jobs in July, far fewer than anticipated. It sparked major pushback on Capitol Hill. Trump will now be searching for a replacement.