Top White House economic advisers on Sunday defended U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pushing back against criticism that Trump's action could ...

President Donald Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) official responsible for a recent jobs report that showed a slowdown in the economy. The decision has been met ...

The firing drew backlash from economists and others fearing that such a move will undermine trust in the key economic data in the future.

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

President Trump's removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer has sparked controversy, with critics arguing ...

The president responded to the lackluster July jobs report by directing his team to fire the chief of the Bureau of Labor ...