BLS chief fired by Trump over jobs report comments publicly for first time

Source: The Hill

09/16/25 7:45 PM ET


The former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, on Tuesday made her first public remarks since she was fired by President Trump last month following a poor jobs report and substantial revisions to earlier data.

Speaking at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, her alma mater, McEntarfer recounted her experience learning she had been fired and warned of the potential economic consequences of her firing, according to multiple news reports.

“August 1 was like any other first Friday of the month when the job numbers come out, and my quiet and usually obscure little corner [of] the government goes about its business of telling political leaders what these data tell us about the state of the economy,” she said during her lecture, according to the reports.

“Except, by the end of that day, I had been very publicly fired by the president of the United States and was on my way to becoming a household name. It was quite a day, to say the least,” she continued. McEntarfer said she first learned she had been fired when she was contacted by a reporter asking for comment on Trump’s social media post calling for her firing.

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