Speaking to reporters before embarking on Air Force One aircraft in the city of Alntown, Pennsylvania, on their way to Washington DC, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would announce a new head of the BLS (Department of Labor Statistics) within three or four days.
Trump dismissed statistics leader from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS), Erika McTaFer, after accusing her of falsifying job numbers without providing any evidence of data manipulation.
The, released on Friday (1st), showed that the US economy created only 73,000 jobs in July, below expectations.
In addition, the data show the growth in employment previously reported in May and June, totaling 258 thousand.
“In my opinion, today’s job numbers were manipulated to harm Republicans, and me,” Trump said in a publication on the Social Truth.
“Dr.ᵃ Erika McTaFer said there were only 73,000 added jobs (a shock!), But more importantly, they made a serious mistake, a reduction of 258,000 jobs in the previous two months.” Similar things happened in the first half of the year, always to the negative side. The economy is on the rise under the command of ‘Trump’, ”he added in the publication.
