Top White House economic advisers on Sunday defended U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pushing back against criticism that Trump's action could ...

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

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Kristen Welker confronted National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Meet the Press over President Donald Trump's firing of the top jobs data official this week.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, went a step further, calling McEntarfer’s dismissal “the stuff of fascist dictatorships.” A statement by “The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” co-signed by ...

President Donald Trump on Friday (Saturday in Manila) fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking ...

McEntarfer was nominated by Biden in 2023 and confirmed by the Senate in 2024 in a bipartisan 86-8 vote as the 16th commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is part of the Department of ...

Tom Fitzgerald sits down with Wendy Benjaminson, a senior editor at Bloomberg, to discuss President Trump calling for the ...

Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, says an investigation into the firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...

President Trump's removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer has sparked controversy, with critics arguing ...

The president responded to the lackluster July jobs report by directing his team to fire the chief of the Bureau of Labor ...