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Trump says he will fire lead official on economic data as stocks shudder
US President Donald Trump said he would fire the head of the agency charged with publishing some of America's most closely ...
Trump Officials Struggle to Spin Firing of Jobs Report Messenger
President Donald Trump’s acolytes are scrambling to rationalize his decision to fire the nation’s top labor statistician after she delivered a bruising reality check. Trump was confronted with a weak ...
Trump’s Bid To Fire BLS Commissioner ‘Preposterously Stupid And Deeply Dangerous’
"There is absolutely no chance that the BLS commissioner manipulated the jobs and unemployment data to hurt Donald Trump," a ...
Can Trump fire Jerome Powell? What to know about Fed chair Trump calls ‘too stupid’
President Donald Trump has long criticized Jerome Powell about interest rates. The Federal Reserve did not drop rates ...
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Trump to fire Biden appointee leading BLS for mistakes in jobs report
"I was just informed that our Country's 'Jobs Numbers' are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the ...
Trump Claims He 'Most Likely' Will Not Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell
President Donald Trump claimed Friday he “most likely” will not fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, despite ...
'Shoot the messenger’: Democrats condemn Trump’s call to fire BLS chief
Democrats condemned President Donald Trump’s call to fire the head of the Labor Department official in charge of producing jobs data after the latest report showed job growth lower than expected.