The US President’s hasty decision last Friday to fire Erika McEntarfer from her job running the country’s Bureau of Labour Statistics came just hours after the government agency delivered some very unwelcome news. In its much-anticipated monthly bulletin, the bureau reported that the country had only created 70,000 new jobs in July, not the 100,000 that Trump had expected.
In Trump’s world, you shoot the messenger, and make it clear to scores of other federal government bureaucrats toiling on data research that if they deliver unwelcome news to the White House, their jobs, too, could be on the line.
Erika McEntarfer was accused without evidence of ‘concocting’ figures that Trump did not like (Photo: US Bureau of Labor Statistics/ Reuters)Trump claims that McEntarfer, a Biden appointee approved by the US Senate in a wholly bipartisan vote in January 2024, is a political hack who fabricated the monthly jobs report on several occasions. “Last week’s Job’s Report [sic] was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged”, the President fumed on Sunday night. “In both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats”, he wrote on his Truth Social account.
Critics contend that Trump’s actions threaten to make the US government’s economic data – once considered unimpeachable internationally – less reliable and more of a political football. Every single data-gathering bureaucrat is now on notice that bad news is an unwelcome commodity in Trump’s White House. No agency is likely to be immune from his antipathy. Earlier this year, Trump criticised the non-political Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for concluding that his “Big, Beautiful Bill” on tax and spending would swell the deficit by $3.4 trillion. The CBO, established in 1974 to provide objective, nonpartisan information to support lawmakers as they make decisions about proposed legislation, seems very old-school in Trump’s brave new world.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has resisted Trump’s calls to cut interest rates (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Now Trump has a chance to engage in fresh antics that pressure Powell, after the weekend resignation of Adriana Kugler, one of seven members of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. Kugler’s term was due to expire next January, but her early departure affords the White House a chance to replace her with Powell’s potential successor, making life for the Fed chair even more uncomfortable.
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Sixty-two Democrats boarded planes and flew to New York, Chicago and Boston in order to deny the legislature a quorum. Representative Gene Wu, the Texas Democrats’ chair, accused the Republicans of “using an intentionally racist map to steal the voices of millions of Black and Latino Texans”. Texas Governor Greg Abbot, a close ally of Trump, says he will take steps to remove the Democrats from office unless they return to the state.
Across the board, the self-proclaimed “cradle of democracy” is in trouble. The world can only watch with wonderment and consternation.
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