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Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of BLS chief: ‘I’ve never seen revisions like this’
NBC News· 2025-08-03 16:56
Let's start with President Trump's decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erica McInterer, who he accused of manipulating job numbers. Mr.. Hasset, what evidence does the administration have that she manipulated the jobs numbers? Right. Well, what we've seen over the last few years is uh massive revisions to the jobs numbers. In fact, they were extremely reliable, the kind of numbers that you want to guide policy decisions and markets through CO. And then when COVID happened because re ...