Top White House officials defended the move to fire the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics by US President Donald Trump ...

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said on Sunday he would support an investigation into President Trump’s firing of the ...

"The president wants his own people there," economic adviser Kevin Hassett said about the firing of the BLS commissioner.

The president responded to the lackluster July jobs report by directing his team to fire the chief of the Bureau of Labor ...

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said President Trump accusing Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer of “faking” the July jobs report for political purposes was “preposterous ...

The economic calendar in the week ahead will be fairly light with data on services PMI and consumer credit slated to be released ...

A former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics appointed by President Donald Trump said Trump's accusations against the agency are false.

McEntarfer was nominated by Biden in 2023 and confirmed by the Senate in 2024 in a bipartisan 86-8 vote as the 16th commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is part of the Department of ...