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Trump Adviser Defends Labor Official’s Firing, Deflects On How Data Was ‘Rigged’

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, speaks outside the White House last week. (John McDonnell/AP)

President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the official responsible for compiling the nation’s jobs statistics drew condemnation Sunday from economic experts who served in Republican and Democratic administrations, but the White House gave no sign of backing away.

The decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer raised questions about the future independence of agencies tasked with reporting critical economic data — and threatened to further politicize the fraught debate over whether federal budget cuts and job eliminations have weakened the nation’s ability to track major economic statistics.

The White House on Sunday dispatched Kevin Hassett, its top economic adviser, to publicly defend the president’s decision to fire McEntarfer, but he did not provide evidence to support Trump’s claims that recent monthly job figures, which were revised downward last week, were rigged to make him look bad.

“The president wants his own people there, so that when we see the numbers, they’re more transparent and more reliable,” Hassett said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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