· president donald trump criticized the bureau of labor statistics (bls) on friday after reports indicated that the u. s. · white house officials began the week scrambling to find a replacement after trump fired bureau of labor statistics commissioner erika mcentarfer on friday. Antoni as his nominee to lead the bureau of labor statistics on monday, after he fired the former commissioner and blamed her for a weaker-than-expected … · trump told officials to fire erika mcentarfer, the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, hours after a report showed us job growth cooled sharply over the last three months. Economy added only 74,000 jobs in july. · president trump’s firing of the bureau of labor statistics (bls) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his … President donald trump fired the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics on friday after a new … · former bls chief william beach, whom trump appointed during his first term, blasted the firing of his successor as baseless and warned it undermined the credibility of the … · president trump’s decision to fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past. · the bls leadership shake-up is a cautionary tale about the fragility of institutional trust in economic data. · fresh jobs data showed a major slowdown of hiring in recent months. · in fact, president trump just fired the economist who ran the bureau of labor statistics, accusing her – with no evidence – of faking a jobs report that showed fewer gains … President trump announced e. j. While the agencys methodologies remain robust, the perception of …