Senior Republican lawmakers criticize Donald Trump for firing US labor market statistician Erika McEntarfer following a disappointing jobs report that indicated the US economy added only 73,000 jobs. The revised previous numbers showed a total of 258,000 fewer jobs. Concerns about economic deterioration are raised due to slowed consumer spending and economic output. Trump's unfounded claims of manipulated numbers intensify alarm among Republicans, who express concerns over the implications of firing a statistician based on unfavorable data, questioning the reliability of future statistics and the politicization of economic reporting.
The disappointing figures coupled with a downward revision of the two previous months amounting to 258,000 fewer jobs and data showing that economic output and consumer spending slowed in the first half of the year point to an overall economic deterioration in the US.
If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn't like the numbers but they are accurate, then that's a problem. It's not the statistician's fault if the numbers are accurate and that they're not what the president had hoped for.
When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that the statistics won't be politicized. We have to look somewhere for objective statistics.
If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just because they didn't like the numbers, they ought to grow up.
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