Trump White House struggles to justify firing of BLS chief
White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett, Washington, DC, USA, the USA, speaks to journalists on the road outside the Western wing of the White House on March 19, 2025.
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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett defended President Donald Trump’s decision to ignite the Bureau of Statistics without referring to certain evidence.
Hassett pointed out again and again to justify Trump’s BLS commissioner Erika Mcentarfer in employment data on Friday, but as Trump claimed, he did not provide data that the latest job report was “fraudulent”.
“I mean, revisions are hard evidence,” he said NBC News“There are a lot of patterns that can wonder about people.”
Trump expelled Mcentarfer on Friday and accused the number of jobs of manipulating the number of jobs for political purposes after the last report.
Hassett said revisions were “historically important contradictions” and created broader doubts about the data.
He also claimed that Trump had hit the ambassador for the weaker number of work than expected.
Instead, the President said, “He wants his own people there,” and claimed that the data would be “more transparent and more reliable” with the appointment of a Trump.
“And if there are big changes and big revisions, for example, we expect greater revisions for job data in September, then why we want people to explain to us why.” Hassett, the White House’s Mcentarfer’den expelled the reason for explaining the reason for the revisions did not want to explain.
Mcentarfer’s practice received a sharp reaction from economists and others, and he was afraid that such a movement could weaken the trust of the government in the future.
Trump’s former Bls commissioner William Beach, in question The fire of the commissioner was “completely unquestionable”, which was “a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the office.”
Mcentarfer’s fire came after Bls reported weaker business figures than expected.
In July, non -Farm payrolls increased by 73,000 over 14,000 jobs of the previous month, but even Dow Jones predicts for 100,000 earnings. June and May totals were sharply lower than 258,000 united from the previously described levels.
Trump often praised strong job reports during growth periods.
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