US labor market collapses: Trump defends dismissal of statistics chief Erika McEntarfer

In light of surprisingly weak labor market data, Trump announced on Friday that he intended to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer . He accused her of manipulating labor market data for political purposes.

It had previously been announced that the US labor market had shown clear signs of weakness at the beginning of the summer. The Department of Labor revised the number of new jobs downward by a total of 258,000 for the period May and June.