The former leaders say American unemployment and employment statistics
Former Bls Statistics Commissioners (BLS) and non -party economic groups criticized Donald Trump’s BLS ERIKA MCENSANSARFer Commissioner after job report data in July revealed the growth of jobs this summer.
Trump, without any evidence that supports his allegations, claimed the “MCENTARFer” employment numbers in the period before the 2024 elections to enhance Kamala Harris’s chances and said that the recent data is “forged” to make Trump and the Republicans look bad.
Trump’s administration has continued To repeat allegations. The National Director of the Economic Council, Kevin Haysit, the position of Trump, claimed that “throughout the US government, there were people resisting Trump everywhere they could,” to justify the shooting.
BLS friends, a group headed by former BLS Commissioners, Erika Groshen, who is appointed Obama, William Beach, appointed Trump during his first term, strongly criticized the launch of Minarker, called Trump’s allegations, and called Congress to act.
Bls friends wrote in a statement. “This logical basis for the launch of Dr. McNTarfer is not worth and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are the cornerstone of smart economic decisions by companies, families and policy makers.”
General Data users Association, and National Business Economy Association and American Economic Association He also criticized the shooting.
“Under the law, data hate it is not a qualified reason to remove the BLS from its four -year appointment. In light of our democracy, it is not acceptable to launch a person to publish the data collected according to scientific standards,” said the Association of Public Data users in A. statementHe echoed the call of Congress “to respond immediately, to investigate the factors that led to the removal of the Commissioner McNTarfer, to strongly urge the BLS continuous service, and make sure to keep the non -partisan safety of the situation.”
The beach added on social media mail: “The completely restless shooting of Dr. Erika Minarker, Khalti as a BLS work statistics, puts a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the office.”
Be the beach Nominated By Trump as a delegate of the work statistics office in 2017, it was confirmed by the Senate in 2019 and submitted for a full four years until 2023.
In an email, former BLS Commissioner Kathleen Otegov, who was appointed and served within the framework of the George W. Bush administration, told the Guardian newspaper: “job democracy requires accurate data so that workers, companies, politicians and voters can make good decisions on the state.
The American Senator in the United States, Rand Paul, Tom Telese, Senteia Lomes, also questioned the logical basis behind Trump’s launch of BLS MCNTarfer Commissioner.
The last jobs a report BLS before the presidential elections in November 2024 showed that the United States added only 12,000 jobs in October 2024, the slowest growth since 2020.