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August 4, 2025

Trump Fires Head of Bureau of Labor Statistics Over Weaker-Than-Expected Jobs Report
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President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on
Friday, hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs
report. Trump wrote on social media that the numbers were "RIGGED in
order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad." Trump presented no
evidence suggesting the numbers were rigged.

Trump's firing of Erika Mc Entarfer was widely criticized. Former
Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers spoke to ABC on Sunday.

Lawrence Summers: "This is the stuff of democracies giving way to
authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads
of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes
with launching assaults on law firms."



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