Yes, really. Here are the receipts.
In Aug. 2025, Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a weak jobs report showed just 73,000 new jobs and major downward revisions. He claimed the data was "rigged," even though BLS numbers are produced by nonpartisan career staff.
Hours after a report showing 73,000 jobs and a 258,000-job downward revision, he announced on social media he'd fired the commissioner — offering no evidence the numbers were rigged. The 86–8 Senate vote that had confirmed her...
Experts explain why a commissioner couldn't fake the jobs numbers even if she wanted to, given how the data is collected and released. The claim about pre-election numbers that doesn't survive the actual timeline...
New research puts a price on the firing: a $20 billion hit from the policy uncertainty it unleashed. The countries economists compared the move to...