{"id":2470553,"date":"2025-08-04T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warren-says-bls-commissioner-firing-politicizes-jobs-data\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:04:38","slug":"warren-says-bls-commissioner-firing-politicizes-jobs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warren-says-bls-commissioner-firing-politicizes-jobs-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren says BLS Commissioner firing \u2018politicizes\u2019 jobs data"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwarren-says-bls-commissioner-firing-politicizes-jobs-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2470553&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized President Donald Trump for firing Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after the agency released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-end-trumps-policy-to-withhold-white-house-visitor-logs-from-public\/\" title=\"Biden Admin To End Trump\u2019s Policy To Withhold White House Visitor Logs From Public\">disappointing jobs report<\/a>. The July report showed the economy adding only 73,000 jobs and an increase in the unemployment rate to 4.2%, with revisions downward in previous months&#8217; data. Warren defended McEntarfer, emphasizing her long tenure and bipartisan service, and accused Trump of politicizing the jobs data by firing her simply becuase the numbers were unfavorable. She warned that replacing the commissioner could lead to manipulated statistics, which would harm U.S. policymakers, businesses, and the country&#8217;s global credibility. National economic Council Director Kevin Hassett supported the firing, stating the BLS needed &#8220;a fresh set of eyes.&#8221; Warren also linked Trump&#8217;s trade policies and tariffs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-and-canada-reject-chinese-sanctions-over-slave-labor-debate\/\" title=\"U.S. and Canada reject Chinese sanctions over slave labor debate\">economic uncertainty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-found-economy-is-recovering-much-faster-than-officials-expected\/\" title=\"Fed Found Economy Is Recovering Much Faster Than Officials Expected\">labor market<\/a> issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Warren says BLS Commissioner firing &lsquo;politicizes&rsquo; jobs data<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2195413\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3109324\/fed-pressured-to-cut-rates-unemployment-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elizabeth Warren <\/a>(D-MA) blasted President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3488912\/trump-fires-labor-statistics-official-weak-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489667\/kevin-hassett-defends-trump-firing-labor-statistic-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">firing<\/a> the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3488106\/economy-jobs-july-report-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">latest BLS report<\/a>, the economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-unemployment-rate-increases-numbers-way-worse-than-expected-talk-of-inflation-grows\/\" title=\"BREAKING: ... INCREASES, ... \u2018Way Worse Than Expected\u2019. Talk Of Inflation Grows.\">unemployment rate rose<\/a> a tenth of a percentage point to 4.2%. The report revised job data downward from what was collected over the last two months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3489695\/jared-polis-democrats-unify-voters-removing-trump-tariffs\/\">Jared Polis says Democrats can unify voters by removing Trump tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3487121\/parents-refusing-to-buy-school-supplies-ignite-heated-back-to-school-debate\/\">Parents refusing to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >buy school supplies ignite heated back-<\/a>to-school debate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3485885\/gas-prices-steady-last-week-july\/\">Gas prices: Remain steady through the last week of July<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>After the report came out, Trump fired BLS Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3488912\/trump-fires-labor-statistics-official-weak-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Erika McEntarfer<\/a>, an appointee of former President Joe Biden. Warren defended McEntarfer on MSNBC News&rsquo;s <em>Morning Joe<\/em> Monday, saying she had &ldquo;been there [at the BLS] a long time, before that has served both Republican and Democratic administrations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When Donald Trump moves in and says, &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t like the numbers. These are bad job numbers&rsquo; &mdash; and they are bad job numbers &mdash; and he says, &lsquo;Off with her head. We&rsquo;re getting rid of her.&rsquo; What he does is he politicizes the numbers themselves,&rdquo; Warren said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3062264&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=a8c8247af9e5a7f680adf68a150f609c\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3488912\/trump-fires-labor-statistics-official-weak-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">claimed<\/a> McEntarfer was operating politically since she &ldquo;faked the jobs numbers&rdquo; even before the November election, referring to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3129087\/job-growth-set-to-be-revised-down-by-818000-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">818,000 revision<\/a> after Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. At the time of this jobs report, the revisions represented 0.5% of total jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And the person who replaces her, what does that person do next? Do they only serve up nice numbers? Do they sort of re-sand the numbers, paint them a little different color?&rdquo; Warren added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No, if that happens, then effectively you blind the United States and all of our policymakers, all of our decision-makers, all of our businesses, and you diminish us around the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After this latest jobs report, Warren claimed it was Trump&rsquo;s fault that &ldquo;more people sat on the sidelines and stopped searching for work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489667\/kevin-hassett-defends-trump-firing-labor-statistic-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>KEVIN HASSETT DEFENDS TRUMP FIRING LABOR STATISTIC COMMISSIONER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump&rsquo;s chaotic on-again, off-again tariffs are paralyzing the Fed while undermining the labor market and hurting working families,&rdquo; Warren said at the time of the August 2024 report&rsquo;s release.<\/p>\n<p>National Economic Council Director<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489667\/kevin-hassett-defends-trump-firing-labor-statistic-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Kevin Has<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489667\/kevin-hassett-defends-trump-firing-labor-statistic-commissioner\/\">sett<\/a> defended the firing on behalf of the White House on Sunday, asserting, &ldquo;What we need is a fresh set of eyes at the BLS.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2195413\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2195413\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren: Firing BLS chief politicizes jobs data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2470554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Elizabeth-Warren-June-2025.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60585,4274,3883],"class_list":["post-2470553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bls-commissioner","tag-firing","tag-warren"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Elizabeth-Warren-June-2025.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470557,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470553\/revisions\/2470557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}