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riversedge

(77,256 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:40 PM Aug 1

Republican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Dept. official

Source: nbc


Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a significant slowdown in hiring in the U.S.

Updated Aug. 1, 2025, 7:44 PM CDT Brennan Leach and Raquel Coronell Uribe

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Several Republicans told NBC News that they would take issue with the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the BLS, if it is the result of Trump disliking the jobs report numbers, which showed the U.S. job market in the past months has been considerably weaker than previously thought.

Trump defended his decision Friday, saying without evidence that the report’s numbers were “phony” and accused McEntarfer of releasing favorable jobs numbers before the election to give former Vice President Kamala Harris an edge.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wy., said if the data is untrustworthy, the public should find out, but firing the commissioner before knowing whether the numbers are inaccurate is “kind of impetuous.”

“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” Lummis said. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”................

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., blasted Trump’s decision to fire McEntarfer as well.

“If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just did it because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up,” Tillis said...........

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/republican-senators-raise-concerns-trumps-firing-bls-commissioner-rcna222584





“BLS operates as a federal statistical agency and is afforded autonomy to ensure the data it releases are as accurate as possible,” it added.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/republican-senators-raise-concerns-trumps-firing-bls-commissioner-rcna222584 via @nbcnews


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wcmagumba

(4,617 posts)
1. Did they write a sternly worded letter yet? They can't or won't do anything, Trump rages on...
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:44 PM
Aug 1

Please please Dog, let the orange bastard stroke out...

BOSSHOG

(43,618 posts)
3. Trump will sell Pearl Necklaces
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:48 PM
Aug 1

To all Republican Senators involved with this “Concern” episode. A White House Ceremony is imminent. Clutching lessons will be given off camera.

myohmy2

(3,640 posts)
9. why...?
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:28 PM
Aug 1

...that's your boy...

...don't you want to make him look good...?

...a bad case of faux conscientiousness...?

...get with the program...

...be republican...

IzzaNuDay

(1,068 posts)
10. JFC, just DO SOMETHING, GOP Senators. What are you afraid of?
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 12:05 AM
Aug 2

Soon enough the wrath of your consituents may exceed whatever the Orange One could possibly dish out.

progree

(12,240 posts)
12. Step 1. Fire the BLS Comissioner - DONE. Step 2 - seeing no real reaction other than some predictable
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:19 AM
Aug 2

squawking, fire "Too Late" Jerome Powell.

People have probably seen today's news that a Fed governor and a vote on the FOMC interest rate committee Adriana Kugler announced today that she is stepping down August 8, months ahead of the end of her tenure in late January. So she will miss the upcoming September and December FOMC votes -- a Trump appointee will be voting instead.

angrychair

(11,020 posts)
13. Are we going to pretend he didn't say this?
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:38 AM
Aug 2
Trump defended his decision Friday, saying without evidence that the report’s numbers were “phony” and accused McEntarfer of releasing favorable jobs numbers before the election to give former Vice President Kamala Harris an edge.


Am I missing some context here because Kamala Harris isn't running for president and it's not an election year. This is really batshit crazy things to say but we are all just pretending he didn't say it?
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