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The jobs report that enraged Trump was flashing a recession warning sign
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...
Donald Trump's hated jobs report might bring him good news
Though Trump rejects the results of the report, Friday's jobs figures could raise the chances that the Fed cuts rates next ...
Trump fires labor official over weak jobs number, orders criminal probes of past opponents
Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...
After BLS firing, Trump leaves clean-up job to successor
The statistical agency's problems predate Trump, but experts say it can't be easily fixed without more resources ...
Did DOGE contribute to the BLS jobs report that Trump hated? Economist Mark Zandi thinks so
E lon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
Trump to announce Fed appointments soon; Bessent will stay in Treasury job
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would "shortly" announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve's ...
Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much?
President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which ...
Trump defends firing Biden-appointed statistician over ‘fake political’ jobs numbers
Trump took a page from the 2020 playbook to explain his firing of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer.