Top White House officials defended the move to fire the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics by US President Donald Trump on Sunday (August 3). The White House economic advisers pushed back against ...

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said on Sunday he would support an investigation into President Trump’s firing of the ...

"This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism," Larry Summers said. "This is really scary stuff." ...

President Donald Trump has for months tried to pressure Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to resign from his post if he ...

President Donald Trump didn’t like the latest job numbers and revisions to the May and June statistics, so he just fired the chief of the […] ...

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the ...

A former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics appointed by President Donald Trump said Trump's accusations against the agency are false. The post Trump’s Former Jobs Data Chief Says ‘There’s ...

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 ...

Kevin Hassett, one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving economic advisers, on Sunday defended the president’s decision ...

Kristen Welker confronted National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Meet the Press over President Donald Trump's firing of the top jobs data official this week.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, went a step further, calling McEntarfer’s dismissal “the stuff of fascist dictatorships.” A statement by “The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” co-signed by ...