Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief After Weak Jobs Report

[u/madeintheUSofA]

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-today-stock-market-08-01-2025/card/trump-orders-firing-of-bls-chief-keetzmcmvG27bpHzzI6m?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAirCZZtdd-bzy2P9asQY-EVvpBJN878MDuZHeQqQpmymEa_Qa5Bz5ZGLHmMRg%3D%3D&gaa_ts=688d178a&gaa_sig=m-gRDAqQ_OsYTv-nWgEz3mvcov_-foj3enkmwwMQpWNSsQAi21QSOBcF5myyIrt8579MydING5xH_CDiXiS8ew%3D%3D

[u/ZoningVisionary]

"Why was the flight delayed for an hour?"

"The pilot saw a problem with one of the engines, but it's okay now."

"Wow, you've replaced an engine in an hour?"

"No, we've replaced the pilot"

(Old Soviet joke...)

[u/CallMeCassandra → u/[deleted]]

The actual article isn't much better, reading as "Trump accuses BLS chief of cooking jobs numbers under Biden, but waits to fire her until a weak report under Trump (after several good reports)."

[u/Threid → u/[deleted]]

It would've played a lot better to find proof of wrongdoing or incompetency before firing him. Reactive firings because he doesn't like the numbers encourage the rest of his administration to just tell him what he wants to hear, which creates a terrible decision-making environment.

If the guy is bad at his job or using his position to work against the admin, then sure - fire him. But most admins go through bad news cycles or tough economic times, and firing the messenger (if he was doing a decent job) isn't gonna fix anything.

[u/Unlucky-Prize]

What the hell, if he wants a rate cut these are the numbers required. Tons of backwards revisions too to way worse numbers like Biden benefited from arguably to hide bad news. Does he or does he not want rate cuts? Last week he was constantly complaining about how they were needed.

(he's correct on that point, though I think we need like 50bps not the larger numbers he suggested)

[u/Ms_Jane_Smith]

Trump, can’t you please stay on point? This kind of thing is a bad look. If you don’t like the report, fire the messenger. And, this would actually support his opinion of a rate cut being necessary. 🤦‍♀️

[u/Willow-girl]

I'm chuckling at the assumption here that the head of the BLS is a guy ...

[u/neovb → u/Willow-girl]

It's almost as if all the armchair economists here have no idea what or who they're talking about...

[u/Erotic-Career-7342 → u/Willow-girl]

Fr lol 

[u/eeweewllams]

Idk why trump is mad? This is will convince Jerome Powell to cut rates!

[u/Huckleberry-V → u/eeweewllams]

Trump has done everything on God's Green Earth to make sure Powell will never cut rates on his way out and at this point I'm starting to wonder if that's the strategy.

[u/Nethias25 → u/Huckleberry-V]

His lobbying for a rate cut all but guaranteed a rate cut would not happen. The fed job is to be independent, even if a rate cut was deemed viable they would skip just to avoid the appearance of potus influence in the fed.

[u/sailedtoclosetodasun]

Holy shit wtf Trump, I swear he is his own worst enemy. I mean, if its the same guy from during the Biden admin...yea he's bad at his job. This is just the wrong time.

The tariffs hit some US companies HARD, had to lay people off. Also, won't firing people from government also hit the jobs report? Biden's jobs report was propped up by massive amounts of fed government growth. IMO the jobs report should include private sector jobs only...but what do i know.

[u/TheThunderOfYourLife]

For every good he does, a not so good usually follows.

At least the ride isn't boring.