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This is going to have some type of blowbackAfter weak jobs data, Trump fired the head of labor stats
Cracks in the U.S. economy appeared to emerge this morning when the Labor Department’s monthly report showed a significant slowdown in hiring. Economists suggested that a variety of factors could have contributed to the cooling, including federal job cuts, immigration crackdowns and seesawing tariff announcements.
However, President Trump implied that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was manipulating the data for political reasons and fired her.
McEntarfer was appointed to her post by Joe Biden in 2023 and confirmed in 2024 by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the Senate, after a long government career in which she served under presidents of both parties, including Trump.
Trump’s labor secretary said the firing would “ensure the American People can trust” the government’s jobs data. Others disagreed: “If you want people to stop trusting the numbers,” one economist said, “firing the person who is confirmed by the Senate to make sure those numbers are trustworthy is a real good way to do it.”
In other economic news:
- Arguably the biggest news in the jobs report was two large downward revisions for May and June. Here’s why that could be a bad sign.
- Trump backed off his threat of a 50 percent tariff on the African nation of Lesotho. But in this video, our Johannesburg bureau chief, John Eligon, explains how the damage has already been done.
This is going to have some type of blowback
That’s scary B you’re talking to. He really is delusionalI wouldn't hold your breath.
What happened to the ships story that was supposed to happen a few months back?This is going to have some type of blowback
I distinctly remember someone on here saying they are going to start bringing aliens out in order to hide these epstein files..
Trump’s Tariff scheme and fictional “trade deals” will go up in flames and soon, based on the heavy skepticism shown by most of the judges of the Trump defense of his “tariff power” at a hearing before the full 11 judges of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.Or as one one succinctly put it “there is no mention of the word ‘tariff’ in the emergency power statute you rely on!’” Michael Popok gives an overview of the oral argument, and when Trump may have to start refunding billions of dollars of fraudulent tariffs.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse tells Jen Psaki what comes to mind when he sees Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, in his new capacity as deputy attorney general making an unusual visit to Ghislaine Maxwell.
1/3 of the dudes on this site would play ball for Trump, good luck with your journeyAnd cats will still play for dude for the years to come
Pfft. This will be forgotten faster than the Epstein coverup that is definitely going to be forgotten.This is going to have some type of blowback