The head of the US labour statistics agency who was fired by Donald Trump has hit out the president, warning his attacks on the organisation were a “dangerous step” that would leave Americans “suffering the consequences”.
Trump sacked Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer at the beginning of August following the publication of a gloomy jobs report, with the president claiming its statistics were “rigged” against him.
“Firing your chief statisticians for releasing data you do not like has serious economic consequences,” McEntarfer said at her alma mater Bard College, in her first public remarks since she was fired. “The list of countries that have gone down this route is not a good list — Argentina, Greece, Turkey.”
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