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Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, citing rigged jobs' numbers during election campaign

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Washington DC [US], August 2 (ANI): US President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused, without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for "political purposes," CNN reported.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly labor report Friday showed that the US economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, far below expectations. It also sharply revised down the employment growth that had been previously reported in May and June - by a combined 2,58,000 jobs.

After the revisions, the jobs report showed the weakest pace of hiring for any three-month period since the pandemic recession in 2020, as per CNN.

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"In my opinion, today's Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

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