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(NewsNation) — The erstwhile Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner has responded to her unexpected firing by President Donald Trump, who had accused her of manipulating occupation numbers to assistance Kamala Harris get elected.
"It has been the grant of my beingness to service arsenic Commissioner of BLS alongside the galore dedicated civilian servants tasked with measuring a immense and dynamic economy," Erika McEntarfer said connected Bluesky, a societal media app, Friday. "It is captious and important enactment and I convey them for their work to this nation."
Trump responded to the lackluster July jobs report by directing his squad to occurrence McEntarfer.
U.S. employers added 73,000 jobs past month, abbreviated of the 115,000 forecasters expected. But Friday’s Labor Department data revealed a much troubling trend: The occupation marketplace has been overmuch softer than galore realized.
“She volition beryllium replaced with idiosyncratic overmuch much competent and qualified,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social Friday.
There’s nary grounds McEntarfer, who was nominated by erstwhile President Joe Biden, manipulated immoderate data, and revisions are a mean portion of the Labor Department’s modular reporting process.
