President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after the agency’s latest jobs report showed the economy’s slowest months of job growth since the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump’s acolytes are scrambling to rationalize his decision to fire the nation’s top labor statistician after she delivered a bruising reality check. Trump was confronted with a weak jobs report Friday showing just 73,

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."