Trump White Home is combating to justify the firing from BLS boss

The White House's economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, speaks to reporters in the entrance outside the west wing of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, March 19, 2025.

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The director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, defended President Donald Trump's sudden decision on Sunday to relieve the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner without citing specific evidence.

Hassett repeatedly referred to the revisions in the employment data on Friday to justify Trump's dismissal of the BLS commissioner Erika McEecentarfer, but did not provide any data that showed that the latest job report was “manipulated”, as Trump claimed.

“I think the revisions are hard evidence,” he said in NBC News and added that there were a number of patterns that people could be surprised. “

Revisions are common in job report data, since the initial estimate is often more precise, since additional wage and salary account data will be available in the following months. The data depends on employee surveys, and some companies cannot submit their data according to the first reporting period.

Trump released Mcectarfer on Friday and accused her of manipulating the jobs for political purposes after the latest report contained two previous months to revisions the data of employment growth.

Hassett argued that the revisions were a “historically important outlier” and said that they accepted broader doubts about the data.

He also rejected the claims that Trump “shoot” the messenger for the weaker jobs.

Instead, he said, “the President wants his own people there” and suggested that the data with a Trump representative were “more transparent and reliable”.

“And if there are major changes and major revisions, we expect more large revisions for the job data in September, then we would like to know why we explain it to us,” he continued.

Hassett did not say whether the White House had asked Mcectarfer to explain the reason for the revisions in the data before it was released.

The White House did not immediately respond to the request from CNBC for a comment.

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McEecentarfers Fire came after the BLS reported as expected as expected.

Non -agricultural salary statements rose by 73,000 in July, over the 14,000 jobs in the previous month, but even under the estimated estimate by Dow Jones of 100,000. The sums of June and May became very lower to summarize 258,000 of previously announced levels.

Trump has often praised strong job reports during growth times.

Trust problems

McEecentarfers fall hit sharp counter -reactions from economists and others and feared that such a step could undermine confidence in the government's data in the future.

The former BLS commissioner William Beach, who appointed Trump, said that the release of the commissioner was “completely unfounded”, which “is a dangerous precedent and undermine the statistical mission of the office,” said X shortly after release.

On Sunday, Beach said that shooting is “harmful” and “undermining the credibility of the institution.

“Suppose you get a new commissioner, and this person, male or female, are simply the best people, right? And they make a bad number,” he said on CNN.

“Well, everyone will think, well, it's not as bad as it is probably really because they suspect the political influence.”

The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and the democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, repeated the criticism of Beach.

Schumer said Trump had behaved like a “bad leader” and a dictator.

“Well, Donald Trump, if she fires her, the chaos that you have created with her dilapidated tariff regime will not relieve,” said Schumer on the ground of the Senate.

Wyden struck Trump's shot as “the act of someone who has soft, weak and afraid of owning the reality of the damage that his chaos has inflicted on our economy”.

“Conclusion, Trump wants to cook the books,” said Wyden, the top democrat at the Senate financial committee, in an explanation after Trump had released Mctarfer.

Data acquisition in doubt

While many criticized the controversial dismissal of the BLS commissioner, others questioned whether the methods that used the job data for a long time should be visited.

Bank of America For example, CEO Brian Moynihan said that the government uses surveys to inform the jobs that are “honestly no longer so effective”.

“I think you can get this data in other ways and I think the focus should be on there,” he said on Sunday about CBS News.

“How do we get the data and are more resistant and more predictable and understandable?” He continued.

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky, said on Friday that “we have to look for objective statistics.”

“If the people who offer the statistics are released, it will be much more difficult to make judgments that the statistics are not politicized,” Paul told NBC News and emphasized the need for trustworthy data.

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