President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the agency’s latest jobs report showed the economy’s slowest months of job growth since the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” Trump wrote on social media on Friday afternoon.
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The jobs report comes as Trump’s signature economic policy, tariffs on global trading partners, are on the verge of going into effect.
The president is also still grappling with backlash on both sides of the aisle over his administration’s handling of information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced sex offender and financier who died in 2019 under circumstances many have called into question.
