The US president Donald Trump has ordered this Friday the fulminating dismissal of the head of the Office of Labor Statistics, which publishes the monthly employment data. Those corresponding to the last month, which show a defendant decrease in the number of contracts, have not liked the president, who sees behind them, without providing any evidence, a political intentionality to discredit his presidency.
Trump has given orders to say goodbye “immediately” to Erika Mtntarfer, commissioner of the Office of Labor Statistics, which she accuses of manipulating monthly labor reports with “political purposes.” “It will be replaced by someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers such as these should be fair and precise, they cannot be manipulated for political purposes,” Trump said without any evidence in his Truth social network.
“Mtientefer said that only 73,000 jobs were added (amazing!) But, more importantly, that they made a big mistake, 258,000 less jobs, in the previous two months,” he said in Truth Social. “Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always negative. The economy is booming under ‘Trump’.”
Again without evidence, Trump argues that Mcentfer “falsified” the employment figures before the November presidential elections to try to increase the possibilities of former Vice President Kamala Harris, who disputed, without success, the presidency.
Mtntarfer, appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, was confirmed as responsible for the Senate agency, in January 2024, for a period of four years. He received 86 votes in favor and only eight against.
Trump took advantage of his last rabies attack to lash out again against the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, of which he assured that “he should also be put to graze.”
Julio’s employment data shows that the labor market has begun to accuse the commercial policy volatile of the Republican Administration and, above all, the mass layoffs in the federal administration. Unemployment rose one tenth to 4.2 %, a month in which some 73,000 new jobs were created, well below the 110,000 that analysts expected and also of the figures recorded since January. The slowdown of the market would give Powell in theory to decide not to lower the types -the double objective of the Fed is to tame inflation to 2% and full employment -but it can also serve as ammunition to Trump to increase his pressure on Powell.
