Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works
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President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the books in a vendetta against his presidency.
“In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,” Trump said in a message on Truth Social Friday.
As a result, he fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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