Trump Defends Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner

TIME

President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a report that showed that the U.S. added fewer jobs in July than many economists had expected, indicating that job growth has stalled in the aftermath of Trump enacting a number of controversial economic policies.

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00:00We're seeing phenomenal numbers in terms of the business we do with other countries and the business we do within our own country.

00:09I mean, really phenomenal numbers. We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next three or four days.

00:17We had no confidence. I mean, the numbers were ridiculous, what she announced.

00:22But that was just one negative number. All of the numbers seemed to be great.

00:25And if you remember, just before the election, this woman came out with these phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy.

00:36Phenomenal numbers. And then right after the election, they announced that those numbers were wrong.

00:43And that's what they did the other day. So it's a scam, in my opinion.

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