President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer after an unfavorable jobs report revealed only 73,000 jobs added and rising unemployment. Major downward revisions to previous job estimates raised alarms. Trump claimed McEntarfer acted politically and promised to appoint someone honest. Mediaite's Dan Abrams criticized the charges against her as factually incorrect, arguing the administration was politicizing economic data, thus marginalizing truth and objectivity. Abrams defended the BLS's method of reporting, noting they do not manipulate numbers created by others, highlighting potential economic consequences of eroding trust in the data.
The firing of McEntarfer was another case of the Trump administration politicizing the facts while marginalizing truth and objectivity in the reporting of economic data.
In defense of the BLS, it's emphasized that those in charge don't create numbers but rather review and oversee data that is delivered to them from other sources.
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