New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was manipulated for the 2024 presidential election. In an interview with CNN’s

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it.

President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a report that showed that the U.S. added fewer jobs in July than many economists had expected,

President Trump on Tuesday repeated his claims that government jobs data was rigged, insisting — without evidence — the statistics were manipulated to make him look bad. Why it matters: The more the president says the economy's most crucial data point isn't believable,

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him. During his first term, the Republican president suggested reducing COVID-19 testing to make the outbreak seem less severe.

President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.

Let’s not pretend that President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on Friday because of supposed “inaccuracies” like these.

Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has exposed deepening fissures within a data agency vital to measuring the strength of the world’s largest economy. The US president sacked BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the agency on Friday published a gloomy July jobs report,