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Economist fired: Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision to fire the top labor official in charge of compiling statistics on employment and insisted that the administration was not shooting the messenger over weakness in the labor market. The official, Erika McEntarfer, was appointed with bipartisan support and had worked for decades as an economist for the U.S. government until she released a dour jobs report last week.
