White House officials on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision to set fire to the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after a weak job report on Sunday, a step that has widely criticized.
National Economic Council President Kevin Haset said on NBC’s “Meat the Press”, “The President wants his own people so that when we look at the numbers, they are more transparent and more reliable,” National Economic Council President Kevin Husset said on NBC’s “Meat the Press”.
Haset said in another interview on “Fox News Sunday” that the BLS Commissioner has the responsibility of explaining the major amendments such as seen in the report of Friday jobs, which was shown 258,000 less jobs Initially for pre -months compared to the report.
Haset said, “The big downward revision is something puzzle. I don’t think it was explained very well. And I think the market may be equally unresolved by the fact that the data may be so much noise,” Haset said.
One of Trump’s top tariff dialogues, American trade representative Jaimison Greer on Sunday said in an interview aired on CBS’s “Face the Nation” The President has “real concerns” About the number of jobs reported by the Labor Department.
“During the campaign even last year, there were huge swings in the number of jobs during the campaign, and so I think the President has real concerns.”
“You want to be somewhat able to be able to be able to be somewhat capable,” he said. “There are always amendments, but sometimes you see that these amendments go really in extreme ways. And this, you know, the President is the President. He can choose who works in the executive branch.”
Trump on friday Instructed his team to set fire BLS Commissioner Erica McNarfer added only 73,000 jobs in July after the latest job reports, and major amendments for jobs added in May and June.
The move inspired immediate resentment from Democrats and a handful of Republicans with Kuch. Calling for an inquiry,
MCENTARFER was nominated by former President Biden and was strongly confirmed by the GOP-led Senate to 86–8 votes earlier last year.
Trump’s advisors underlined the President’s concerns about the amendment of labor data, defending the firing of MCENTARFER.
Haset said that the data reported by the government has seen large swings since the Kovid -19 epidemic.
“What we have seen in the last few years is a massive amendment to the number of jobs. In fact, they were extremely reliable, the kind of number you want to guide policy decisions and markets, through Kovid. And then when covid, because the reaction rate was very low, the revision rate was touched. So the modification rate was so much. So the specific monthly amendment was often bigger,” said Haset.
Trump claimed the ax to the BLS chief, without evidence that before the 2024 election to promote former vice -president Kamla Harris’ bid, MCENTARFER “threw the number of jobs”, which cites labor statistics amendment during bidden administration promoting the number of jobs before the election.
The President accused him that he was manipulating data to make him and Republicans look bad, writing on Truth social on Friday, “They would be replaced with a very competent and worthy. Such a significant number of such important numbers should be appropriate and accurate, they cannot be manipulated for political purposes.”
MCENTARFER reacted to Trump’s firing in a social media post over the weekend, saying that it was “Respect for my life” To serve in role and complete the “important and important work” done by civil servants in the agency.
