Donald Trump has stepped up his assault on the US’s most important economic institutions, sacking the head of the country’s labour statistics agency just hours after a gloomy jobs report.
The US president on Friday ordered officials to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, who was appointed by his predecessor Joe Biden.
“[McEntarfer] will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes,” Trump said, claiming without evidence that she had massaged figures to help the former president.
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