This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, stemming from his mistrust of ...

A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

President Donald Trump held an event at the White House today with an economist in which they both insisted that his firing ...

President Donald Trump is the first president to fire the chief of a key government agency that produces the crucial U.S. jobs report. To hear President Donald Trump and his allies tell it, the ...

President Donald Trump has summoned reporters to the Oval Office to present charts that he says shows the economy is solid.

PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...

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Steve Bannon, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump in his first term and an influential voice in conservative circles, is pushing for EJ Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.“I’ve told ...

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...