President Donald Trump got some bad economic news Friday, and responded by shooting the messenger. Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after it sent markets tumbling with a report that showed a dramatic slowdown in US hiring.

President Donald Trump on Friday fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking weak scorecard of the U.S. job market, accusing her without evidence of manipulating the figures and adding to already growing concerns about the quality of economic data published by the federal government.

President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a report that showed that the U.S. added fewer jobs in July than many economists had expected,

President Donald Trump is calling for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors to usurp the power of Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

President Donald Trump has long criticized Jerome Powell about interest rates. The Federal Reserve did not drop rates recently. Can Trump fire Powell?

President Trump said that he made a "mistake" in appointing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell before criticizing his handling of U.S. interest rates.