Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the top official overseeing employment statistics, saying that ousting her calls into question the independence and stability of the federal agency that reports some of the nation’s most critical economic data.
Defending his action in the CNBC interview, Trump complained about the timing of previous jobs reports released by the bureau, but he got the timeline wrong. He said downward revisions of the number of new jobs in the economy happened only after he was elected president. Early last August, during Joe Biden’s presidency, the agency reported rising unemployment and a cooling jobs market. Later that month the bureau reported that the economy had created 818,000 fewer jobs than it had previously reported from April 2023 through March 2024, marking the largest annual revision to federal jobs data in 15 years.
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