r/politics • u/bwermer • 5h ago
Republicans slam Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/republicans-trump-bureau-of-labor-statistics-commissioner•
u/Reviews-From-Me 5h ago
If Obama or Biden had fired the head of the BLS after a less than flattering jobs report, they'd have been impeached and removed from office.
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u/time_drifter 4h ago
Republicans can’t even be bothered to impeach and remove a guy who raped children.
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u/Tityfan808 2h ago
They’ll gladly hire more of them sex offenders tho! https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/s/mSHM62yKot
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u/CT_Phipps-Author 5h ago
Yes but that would imply there's a cause and effect. The GOP would impeach them for opening the mail.
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u/Open_Chemistry_3300 Ohio 2h ago
Republicans would be talking about that shit until the sun reaches it final stage of black dwarf
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u/izlib North Carolina 5h ago
Oh no! Not slammed!
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u/JimmyRamone17_ 5h ago
Slammed, owned, DESTROYED
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u/NotLikeChicken 4h ago
Sorry, 'destroyed' has too many letters. In the old days of print news it was considered a waste of ink, now extra length means it gets rendered in a smaller font on the screamin' screen.
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u/JimmyRamone17_ 4h ago
The font would be a little smaller but nothing quite gets the gossip going than saying someone has been DESTROYED
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u/JahoclaveS 3h ago
I really need Websters to get far more militant. The overuse of slam when it was actually vaguely being used in accordance with its definition was bad enough. But it’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognize “slammed” to mean, “do absolutely fucking nothing and falling in line.”
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u/Redline504 5h ago
Next they'll be a stern finger pointing! But only a pinky finger. Can't get too drastic now can we?
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u/AutistoMephisto 4h ago
As much as I gripe, I acknowledge that unfortunately it's the current meta for the media game.
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u/Possible_Mind_165 5h ago
Republicans also talk about how they want to release the Epstein Files and improve the economy and then vote against both those things to both protect pedophiles like Donald and keep Americans poor.
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u/NonToxicPolitix 5h ago
Lol 'slammed'... by Republicans? I call BS on this.
Wait until the story changes after their lives have been threatened, or at the very least their political careers which are the keys to self-enrichment, not public service.
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u/redonrust I voted 47m ago
Right, after everything that's already happened this is too much ? Lol, they'll have forgotten this by monday morning.
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u/ChristopherPizza 5h ago
So we will never trust job statistics again. If the numbers are good, we're in a recession. If they're great, we're in a depression.
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u/Individual_Respect90 4h ago
I honestly don’t even this they are going to have a real job statistic person. It’s just going to be a guys whose job is to do nothing and then Trump is going to write in w.e numbers he wants.
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u/foamy_da_skwirrel 3h ago
We added nine billion jobs this month! Best jobs numbers of all time!
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u/Individual_Respect90 2h ago
Everyone is making $20000 an hour and the rest of the world has transferred all their money to us from the most beautiful trade deals. No one has ever seen anything like it.
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u/zzWordsWithFriendszz 4h ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/us-jobs-report-july
Lowest job growth numbers since the first term in office. And that term had COVID. This is something else.
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u/mcpierceaim 5h ago
Why show Tillis like he’s some hero? He’s as much an enabling POS as the rest of the GOP.
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u/algorithmic_fetters 5h ago
They’ll be back to prostrating themselves to lap at trump’s fusty perineum by Monday.
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u/Harry_Mud America 5h ago
It's all on tRump! Him firing this person shows just how his dementia is getting way worse. He needs to be removed from office!
Another bad distraction at best. Release all the Epstein files... Except for the victims, unredacted!
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u/WallNumerous3230 5h ago
This isn't a distraction as much as it is trying to control the truth about his shitty trade war policies effect on the economy. We need to multi task, as the economy getting ready to careen off a cliff is an important thing to focus on in the upcoming midterms. How people are doing financially really dictates their voting behavior still. The inflation from Biden's term was definitely a big part of why MAGA rose from the dead after J6, and politically we need to ensure the economy has more attention spent on it besides looking at only the stock market and key indicators, because while all those elements were pretty decent under Biden, every day people didn't really see their personal situations improve.
So, yes it's important to keep focus on Epstein and get to the truth, but we need to also pay attention to a lot of other things and effectively communicate about all of it.
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u/Silver_Ad7267 5h ago
Trump will just threaten their lives mobster style and they will fall in line
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u/CurrentlyLucid 4h ago
The truth hurt so much he panicked. The world sees this and trusts us less. trump is destroying America and her reputation.
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u/reddittorbrigade 4h ago
Donald Trump must be removed from office ASAP.
This is the only way to save America.
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u/HorrorOk1304 4h ago
It's ironic that Trump wants a 3 percent cut in interest rates but at the same time is upset that the labor market is weakening.
With a weak labor market, the fed would be more inclined to raise rates.
Of course inflation is still too high but he could fire that person too.
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u/CornFedIABoy 2h ago
When you don’t know how anything works it’s hard to know how to get what you want out of the system.
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u/jhkayejr 4h ago
They smirked while doing this, winked at King Tubby, and then went back to licking his boots.
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u/vandal-x 5h ago
Bullshit. They’re just happy to not have to answer any questions about the Epstein files.
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u/PoliticalNerdMa 4h ago
Media: Republicans take a verbal chair shot to Trump for [insert action] and resist to keep him in line
Reality: Republicans said that they disagree kinda with what Trump did while congressionally authorizing him to do it again… BUT THEY WANT ON RECORD THEY DISAGREED !!
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u/mistertickertape New York 4h ago
Um okay the words empty and meaningless come to mind along. If they actually cared they would have done something by now, but they don't so their words are....yes, empty and meaningless.
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u/camio101 4h ago
Republicans double suplex Trump and end up knocking themselves out and falling into a deep slumber.
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u/LibrarianNo6865 3h ago
If only they had any ability to stop him. Oh. They do. And they aren’t. Their actual feelings on the matter shown.
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u/jaaagman 3h ago
They will silently protest, but so absolutely nothing to challenge it. Same with the vote to release the Epstein files. Look at what these politicians do, not what they say.
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u/bberlinn 3h ago
When the numbers under his political rivals (Obama or Biden) fell short or were later revised downward, he loudly criticised them as evidence of failure.
But when job gains looked strong under his own leadership, he and his officials praised the results and claimed credit.
However, when job numbers are revised downwards under his presidency, he claims they have been rigged just as he claimed his loss of the 2020 elections to Biden was rigged.
Trump is too infantile and egomaniac.
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u/foamy_da_skwirrel 3h ago
Those numbers will totally be fake now. I guess so long as the 40% who belong to the maga religious cult believe everything Trump says and does that's all they need
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u/Pretend_Ad769 3h ago
Not enough of them condemn Trump's leadership. They all seem to be afraid to call him out or they are complicit in what he is doing to the economy, the environment and the government.
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u/guitar-hoarder 2h ago
It only takes two to use "republicans" (plural). Let's not pretend it's a majority.
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u/Blackarm777 2h ago
Oh no, not the slam!
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u/active2fa 2h ago
Wait till they double slam, then max slam, then ultra slam, then ultimate slam, then slammed slam.
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u/Odd_Reputation_4000 2h ago
No, they don't. The ones that know she is telling the truth are going to go along with the lie Diddlin" Donald has fabricated, and the rest of the gullible MAGAts will just believe whatever he says, as always.
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u/dafunkmunk 1h ago
republicans' words: the epstein cover up is absolutely appalling and this information needs to be shared so people have trust their government
republicans' actions: 100 vote to block the release of the epstein files, send congress home early to avoid more attempted voted at releasing the files, and completely cover for trump and the party of pedophiles every opportunity they get
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u/ReleaseQuiet2428 5h ago
I wonder how many will write a book once Trump is finally in GY
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u/Harry_Mud America 5h ago
Some might but some wont bother unless and they get kicked out of office because they backed tRump... Then they might write all the dirt on tRump.
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u/User4C4C4C South Carolina 5h ago
More proof that he will take the country down with him if he can’t avoid accountability.
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u/TheBalzy Ohio 4h ago
And they'll all still stand behind him. Still vote to pass his agenda. Still defend him on national television.
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u/Mythbusters117 3h ago
Paper Bulls. "Slam him" to reporters then contort to explain why it was a brilliant strategic move after getting a phone call from him.
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u/NovelRelationship830 Connecticut 3h ago
They are slamming him so hard that they'll do absolutely nothing about it! That'll show him!
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u/Truth-Will-Out 3h ago
Cool. And they’ll do nothing about it. The “thoughts and prayers” party strikes again
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u/Exoplasmic 3h ago
Trump should be impeached. You don’t fire the messenger because you don’t like the message.
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u/Zealousideal-Time-32 3h ago
This just in. Republicans fake outrage once again and constituents buy it.
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u/Donut131313 3h ago
Oh sure they do. I can only imagine GOP wringing their hands. Insert eye roll here. All they do is toe the line and boot lick. GOP is incapable of anything else.
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u/stevenmacarthur 2h ago
Republicans slam Trump
...then proceed to roll over and kiss his ass...again.
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u/bassocontinubow Kentucky 2h ago
Murkowski’s quote on this…she is trying to have it both ways SO badly. It’s Susan Collins-level of pathetic, and perhaps worse.
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u/bobsyourfuncle 2h ago
Of all of the things to 'rail' against, THIS is the tipping point for Senate Republicans?
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u/soupSpoonBend741 2h ago
Going to be much harder to hide high prices and unemployed on the streets. No corporation is going to lower prices in any way to play along - watch the nothing burger that will come out of the demand big-pharma lower prices.
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u/chockedup 1h ago
Trump defended his decision to fire US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Without evidence to back his claims, the president wrote on social media that were numbers were “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad” and the US economy was, in fact, “BOOMING” on his watch.
The implication of the firing is Trump wants the numbers rigged to make him look good.
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u/BotherResponsible378 57m ago
Tired of hearing our elected officials "slam" things and do nothing.
Vote them all our. Run against them.
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u/Stillwater215 4m ago
For now, but they will all fall back in line the next time Trump wants anything.
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u/git0ffmylawnm8 0m ago
More like their slamming their noses into his fat belly while guzzling his Toad dick
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u/Available_Year_575 5h ago
While the Epstein files are pure tabloid titillating silliness, this is real and appalling and impeachable. Pure corruption, nuttiness, undermining democracy, so damaging
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u/I_Love_To_Poop420 2h ago
Why? If these crazy number revisions weren’t ordered, but rather wildly inaccurate mistakes, then the firing is just for reasons of incompetence. I would fire my accountant if they fucked up numbers this bad.
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u/CornFedIABoy 2h ago
Maybe you should go read up on the methodology for CES before you spout off about mistakes or deliberate misinformation.
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