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Hassett says Trump ‘wants his own people’ at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing commissioner
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended Donald Trump’s decision to fire Bureau of Labor ...
Trump says he will announce new labor statistics official in 3 or 4 days
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will announce a new head of the Bureau of Labor ...
Trump ‘Wants His Own People’ in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the White House Says
Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, insisted Sunday that the administration was ...
The president fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after the agency published a negative jobs report.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers had choice words for President Donald Trump after he fired his stats boss over an ...
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...
Former Trump statistics chief slams Friday firing of Erika McEntarfer
Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...
White House Officials Defend Firing of Labor Official as Critics Warn of Trust Erosion
Top White House economic advisers on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor ...
Trump labor secretary touts ‘native-born’ share of job gains
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer touted that native-born employment increased in the latest dismal jobs report, which ...