Trump Fires BLS Commissioner Amid Baseless ‘Rigged’ Jobs Report Accusations
Trump Fires BLS Commissioner Amid Baseless ‘Rigged’ Jobs Report Accusations President Donald Trump has fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer, following the President’s unsubstantiated claims that the recently released August jobs report was ‘rigged.’ The move comes after Trump publicly decried the July jobs creation figures, released on August 1, 2025, and accused McEntarfer of manipulating data for political purposes. Trump took to social media and addressed reporters, alleging that the BLS’s findings of only 73,000…