Hi John,
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been in the news a lot lately: first,
there was a weak jobs report for July. Then, President Trump fired the
commissioner of the BLS due to that jobs report. The commissioner, Erika
McEntarfer, was confirmed in January 2024 by a bipartisan 86-8 Senate
vote, including votes from JD Vance and Marco Rubio.
[ [link removed] ]But why is the BLS is so important? What does it matter if the
president fires a bureaucrat?
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Reliable data is critical for a functioning economy. By firing those who
present him with information he doesn't like, Trump is incentivizing those
who work for the federal government to paint a rosy picture, not an
accurate one. And that ultimately hurts us all, when we no longer have
information we can trust.
Getting rid of the messenger of bad news isn't how a functioning
government works. We deserve better. This isn’t the change we needed.
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