Trump’s Firing Of The BLS Commissioner Is An Ongoing Trainwreck And Embarrassment
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The excuses for the BLS purge are so bad, they’re actually kind of funny… for now.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday had a special guest in the Oval Office on Thursday: the right-wing economist Stephen Moore, who came bearing charts purportedly depicting bogus job numbers during Joe Biden’s presidency.
It was the latest White House effort to justify Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a bad jobs report last Friday. But it very quickly unraveled.
“I was telling the president that he did the right thing in calling for a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because this shows that over the last two years of the Biden administration, the BLS overestimated job creation by 1.5 million jobs,” Moore said.
Moore’s chart showed angry red bars representing downward revisions to job numbers under Biden. In the lower-left corner, it indicated the source: the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In other words, Moore was using BLS numbers as an argument against the BLS, which doesn’t make a lot of sense, especially considering it was a downward revision to numbers from May and June that led Trump to fire BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer for her supposed political manipulation and incompetence.
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