US President Donald Trump burned 1 August Erika Mcentarfer, Head of Labor Statistics (BLS).
“We need people we can believe,” the president Trump He said that, after telling the officials to fire Erika Mcentarfer, hours after the news showed us that the growth of work in the last three months had cooled sharply.
Who is Erika Mcentarfer?
Erika Mcentarfer was a long -time employee of the US government who carried President Trump’s misfortune with Friday’s job report. The year and a half served as a head of BLS.
Career Erika Mcentarferová: Mcentarfer research focuses on loss of employment, retirement, mobility of workers and wage stiffness. Previously, she worked in the Center for Economic Studies of the Office for the Census, the Office for the Tax Policy of the Ministry of Finance and the Council for Economic Advisors of the White House in non -political role.
Mcentarfer was nominated in 2023 to serve as a head of BLS, and the Senate for Health, Education, Work and Pensions recommended that its nomination went to the full Senate for voting, the Associated Press reported. In January 2024, she was confirmed as a BLS commissioner for a vote on Bipartisan 86-8.
Erika Mcentarfer Education: Mcentarfer holds a bachelor title in the field of social science at Bard College and doctoral title in economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Why was Erika Mcentarfer released?
President Trump accused her of manipulating employment for political purposes.
On Friday morning, BLS announced that the US economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, significantly under estimates. She also stated that she had revised May and June numbers and turned out to be lower than previously announced more than 200,000 jobs.
Trump responded to the message and said, “In my opinion, today’s Task numbers were manipulated So that the Republicans and I look bad. ”
He said that “job numbers” were made “by appointment of biden”, Dr. Erika Mcentarfer. He also accused her of pretending “working numbers before the elections to try to strengthen Kamal’s chances of victory”.
“That’s the same Statistics of the Labor Office This overestimate the growth of jobs in March 2024 by approximately 818 000 and then again, just before the presidential elections 2024 in August and September, by 112 000, ”he said.
He ordered his team to fire “this political biden,” Trump said, “he will be replaced by someone much more competent and qualified.”
Trump said, “Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, cannot be manipulated for political purposes.”
William Beach, who was appointed Commissioner BLS Trump in 2019 and served until 2023 during President Joe Biden’s administration, entitled McCcentarfer’s “unfounded” and said that “it determines a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the presidency”.
(With Associated Press inputs)
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