{"id":57300,"date":"2025-08-04T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:58:30","slug":"white-house-defends-trumps-firing-of-labour-statistics-head-over-us-jobs-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57300\/","title":{"rendered":"White House defends Trump\u2019s firing of labour statistics head over US jobs data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Later on Sunday, Trump again criticised BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, without providing evidence of wrongdoing, and said he would name a new BLS commissioner in the next three or four days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CBS that Trump had \u201creal concerns\u201d about the BLS data, while Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said the president \u201cis right to call for new leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hassett said on Fox News Sunday the main concern was Friday\u2019s BLS report of net downward revisions showing 258,000 fewer jobs had been created in May and June than previously reported.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erika McEntarfer, who was fired as BLS Commissioner. Photo: US Bureau of Labour Statistics via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101e5fb9-7216-4504-8007-71b4ee8fd8b7_8cf12aea.jpg\" title=\"Erika McEntarfer, who was fired as BLS Commissioner. Photo: US Bureau of Labour Statistics via Reuters\"\/>Erika McEntarfer, who was fired as BLS Commissioner. Photo: US Bureau of Labour Statistics via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump accused McEntarfer of faking the jobs numbers, without providing any evidence of data manipulation. The BLS compiles the closely watched employment report as well as consumer and producer price data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later on Sunday, Trump again criticised BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, without providing evidence of wrongdoing, and said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[43054,23,14736,29896,43056,43053,991,1340,43055,43057,2800,43058,34381,37419,43052,3,21,19,22,20,25,14012,24],"class_list":["post-57300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-adriana-kugler","tag-america","tag-bank-of-america","tag-bls","tag-bls-commissioner-erika-mcentarfer","tag-brian-moynihan","tag-cbs","tag-congress","tag-covid-pandemic","tag-erika-mcentarfers-firing","tag-federal-reserve","tag-fox-news-sunday","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-kevin-hassett","tag-larry-summers","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}