President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, slamming her for a weak jobs report and claiming she ‘rigged’ the data. Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein joins Erielle Reshef to explain how such a move undermines U.

The labor statistics chief that President Trump fired Friday is a "terrific person, but the jobs data her agency produced has become "very unreliable," National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.

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,

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before the 2024 election were manipulated to make him look bad.

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.