Leftist labor stats chief with dismal record of getting jobs reports wrong fired by Trump
The commissioner of Labor Statistics was fired on Friday after the agency released a dismal jobs report based on President Donald Trump’s economy, a report that multiple observers said was faulty.
It was the same operation that during Joe Biden’s time in the White House overestimated the number of jobs created at that time, by 818,000, and then had to admit its blunders.
“I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory,” Trump announced.
“This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000.:
Trump fires BLS commissioner, Erika McEntarfer pic.twitter.com/5opgVmP7iQ
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 1, 2025
BREAKING: President Trump announced that he’s ordered the FIRING of Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee at the Bureau of Labor Statistics who reportedly “faked the Job Numbers before the election.” pic.twitter.com/VLOpwdc9rS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 1, 2025
Trump’s statement continued, “These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She 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. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under ‘TRUMP’ despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting ‘Kamala’ elected – How did that work out? Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell should also be put ‘out to pasture.’ Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
In fact, during the Biden regime, the agency had to revise its job creation numbers downward by 818,000, a massive change that had, before being corrected, implied that jobs were booming under Biden when they were not.
It was the largest downward adjustment in 15 years.
At the Gateway Pundit was the comment, “President Trump on Friday fired the Biden-appointed Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after she ‘faked’ the jobs numbers before the 2024 election to try to boost Kamala Harris’s chances of a victory.”