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Trump’s plan rips 2,600 USDA jobs from Maryland and DC area, shutters major research hub
A Trump administration plan to shutter one of the nation’s largest agricultural research centers in Prince George’s County ...
Trump fires labor official over weak jobs number, orders criminal probes of past opponents
Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after disappointing July jobs report, claiming the ...
Trump says he doesn’t trust the jobs data, but Wall Street and economists do
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
Trump doubles down on his decision to fire BLS chief after disappointing jobs report
President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged." ...
Trump administration rolls back Elon Musk’s email telling federal employees to justify their jobs
Federal employees will no longer have to meet Elon Musk’s demand that they list their weekly accomplishments in an email or ...
In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
Trump to announce Fed appointments soon; Bessent will stay in Treasury job
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would "shortly" announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve's ...
‘Wrong, wrong, and wrong’: CNN fact checks Trump’s job report claims
CNN’s John Berman fact checks President Donald Trump’s claims on jobs report revisions during an interview with CNBC’s ...
Why jobs revisions that led Trump to fire statistics head were so huge
The jobs report revisions that prompted Trump to fire the BLS commissioner were historically large. Here's why (Hint: it wasn ...