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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 ...
Tracking Trump: Trump attacks the jobs report; a VA proposal to end abortion services; Pirro confirmed as U.S. attorney; and more
Trump proposed restrictions on VA hospitals providing abortions. The Senate confirmed Fox host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney ...
The jobs report that enraged Trump was flashing a recession warning sign
The bad news in last Friday’s jobs report may have been overshadowed when President Donald Trump fired the commissioner in ...
CNBC host pushes back on Trump over ‘rigged’ report: ‘Give me a break’
CNBC anchor Joe Kernen questioned President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his claims about a recent jobs report. A revised ...
Economists push back on Trump’s assertion that July jobs data was ‘rigged’
Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner ...
‘Trust America’ Trade Under Threat: Why the Jobs Report, BLS Firing, and Fed Resignation Sparked Market Jitters
A so-called “sell America” trade, which led in part to the weakest 7-month stretch for the dollar in five decades, developed ...
How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data
President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled ...
Live updates: Global markets mostly gain after Trump’s tariffs and jobs report sent Wall Street tumbling
Global markets bounced back Monday after Wall Street's poor performance Friday following a weak jobs report and U.S.