President Trump on Sunday defended his decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) following a weak ...

Kevin Hassett said the president wants his own people at the agency to provide “more transparent and reliable” jobs data.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the ...

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers had choice words for President Donald Trump after he fired his stats boss over an ...

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers blasted President Donald Trump's firing of a top Bureau of Labor Statistics official.

Economists said ousting the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics could undermine confidence in government economic data.

Trump's history of criticizing the Bureau of Labor Statistics' jobs report has surfaced in the wake of his decision to fire ...

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said on X that McEntarfer was no longer leading the bureau and that William Wiatrowski, ...

UPDATED: Following a jobs report Friday that showed the U.S. labor market slowing, Donald Trump took aim at the statistics ...

The president’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.