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Fact Check Team: Politicization or poor performance? Trump fires BLS commissioner
President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...
Trump Fact Checked Live on TV on Dire Polls and Stats Boss Firing
President Donald Trump was laughed at and fact-checked live on CNBC during a wild phone interview in which he claimed the ...
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‘Does he believe these lies?’ Stunned Jake Tapper compares Trump to George Costanza
Two analysts chided President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he made a series of false statements during a news conference.
Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support
Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, ...
Fact check: Trump’s claim that pre-election jobs revisions helped Democrats
The jobs report for July revealed that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.
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Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency
Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he ...
Republican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Dept. official
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a ...