Jobs Report Agency Faces Scrutiny After Trump Fires Its Chief—What to Know

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Jobs Report Agency Faces Scrutiny After Trump Fires Its Chief—What to Know
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has come under scrutiny since President Donald Trump called its July jobs report “rigged” and fired its commissioner, Erika McEntarfer.

“In my opinion, today’s jobs numbers were rigged in order to make the Republicans, and me, look bad,” Trump wrote in an Aug. 1 post on Truth Social.
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