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Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html
53•belter•11h ago

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inamberclad•10h ago
Firing your subordinates because you don't like the number they report to you is how you obliterate the functioning machinery of government.
legobmw99•10h ago
Hard to imagine that isn’t part of the goal at this point
kccoder•9h ago
Which is their goal
chung8123•6h ago
The numbers were super wrong for June and July. It could appear that they were fired for misleading numbers from the previous months.
snowwrestler•6h ago
Revisions are common.
beefnugs•3h ago
What was his actual job description? Was he just the guy putting numbers into an excel sheet? Or was he supposed to enact policy to make these results better? Or was he suppose to portray objective truth? Or is he suppose to make up whatever bullshit makes the government sound like they aren't completely breaking everything? I guess we know which the next guy will be working toward.
mongol•10h ago
Same mindset as Stalin. Granted, not as severe outcome, but the neurons seem to work in similar patterns
Ancalagon•8h ago
Not as severe yet.
mahkeiro•9h ago
They did the same with inflation numbers…
Braxton1980•9h ago
How do you know?
mahkeiro•6h ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-economic-data-quality-wo...
bwb•9h ago
What a depress timeline. I didn’t have the rebirth of Soviet style rule on my bingo card this year.
ChrisArchitect•9h ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760734
antithesizer•6h ago
HN demonstrating they are no better, not even more intellectually honest, than MAGA itt. If all you know about this is the headline then you know less than nothing.
CyberDildonics•4h ago
The missing piece here is that you haven't given any explanation or evidence to back this up.
mpalmer•4h ago
God yeah the real truth is so obvious right? All the same, why don't you say what the real truth is, just so we know we're thinking about the same thing
lazyeye•4h ago
Trump's comments on the sacking....

"I was just informed that our country's 'Jobs Numbers' are being produced by a Biden appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfar, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the jobs numbers before the election to try and boost Kamala's chances of victory.

This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the jobs growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 presidential election, in August and September, by 112,000.

These were records – no one can be that wrong?"

nneonneo•1h ago
Revisions are common due to the BLS's methodology. The BLS makes estimates based on initial survey data, then produces better numbers based on additional data as it comes in. The methodology is publicized here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/jlt/home.htm.

Trump does not like these numbers and has decided that he'd rather try to blame the messenger rather than accept this as a sign of a weakening economy. It also gives him an opportunity to install someone who might actually fudge the numbers by changing the methodology employed.

Good luck, folks.

lazyeye•27m ago
This doesn't negate Trump's concerns. It's not that adjustments were made, it's the timing of them and the scale of them that tends to suggest a political motivation. You can not like the numbers simply because they are inaccurate. I'm in no position to make that judgement and neither are you.

But given the level of hatred of Trump and the lengths the Dems will go to attempt to discredit Trump we've seen so far, it's not hard to believe that this is just another example of the abuse of political power to take out an opponent.

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