Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs report. She had served as BLS head for a year and a half.

The head of the agency that compiles the closely watched monthly jobs report usually toils in obscurity, but on Friday, the current holder of that job was loudly fired by the president of the United ...

When President Donald Trump announced his nomination of E.J. Antoni to replace Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika ...

Was Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer arrested by "U.S. Navy JAG" on "treason charges" related to the ...

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

E.J. Antoni is a partisan hack. A frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, he’s joined Bannon in criticizing the ...

Bureau of Labor Statistics staff won’t sit by quietly if the new chief tries to manipulate data Trump’s pick to take over at ...

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, directing his team to fire the former President Biden appointee. Trump ...

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

President Donald Trump called for the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be dismissed, alleging there were ...

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