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

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August 9, 2025

Understanding how the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded one of its largest jobs data revision in decades.

Jobs Report Agency Faces Scrutiny After Trump Fires Its Chief—What to Know — Illustration by The Epoch Times, Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

August 07, 2025Updated:August 07, 2025

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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