Well, it finally happened—and not a moment too soon. President Trump, now firmly back in command, just gave the boot to Biden-appointed Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of faking jobs numbers ahead of the 2024 election to boost Kamala Harris’s flailing campaign. The firing came just hours after a dismal July jobs report confirmed what most Americans already felt in their wallets: the so-called Biden recovery was more fiction than fact.
Friday’s numbers were ugly. The U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July—barely a pulse for an economy that Democrats kept insisting was “booming” under their so-called leadership. June’s jobs total? Revised down to a pathetic 14,000. And to make matters worse, the BLS admitted it had overstated job gains in May and June by a staggering 258,000. Add that to last year’s now-infamous downward revision of up to one million jobs, and the pattern becomes undeniable: the books were cooked.
President Trump took to Truth Social and didn’t hold back. He pointed to the BLS’s repeated inflation of job figures in March, August, and September 2024—right before the election—as blatant manipulation designed to give Kamala Harris a lifeline she didn’t earn. “These were Records — No one can be that wrong,” Trump wrote. “Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: There has been a report that the jobs numbers are fraudulent. They keep getting revision down. "That's a terrible insult to our economy." pic.twitter.com/mmeCLEjZcS
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 20, 2024
All employment growth has gone to the foreign-born. 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans are working than in 2019, before Covid. Yet, the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019. pic.twitter.com/qVTbLptXw6
— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) February 13, 2024
And he’s absolutely right. Whether it’s inflation data, jobs reports, or GDP projections, the Biden-Harris administration treated economic indicators like campaign flyers—something to hand out to voters with no connection to reality. Trump’s decision to clean house at the BLS isn’t just about accountability; it’s about restoring credibility to the numbers that actually affect people’s lives.
And it doesn’t stop with McEntarfer. Trump also took aim at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—nicknaming him “Too Late Powell”—for suspiciously slashing interest rates twice right before the 2024 election. Call it what it is: a coordinated effort to prop up a dying administration with phony economic optimism.
Meanwhile, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, nearly all job growth post-COVID went to foreign-born workers—including illegal immigrants—while employment among native-born Americans actually dropped.
So, was the economy “booming” under Biden-Harris? Only on paper—and even that paper was forged. Trump’s taking out the trash, and after years of deception, it’s about time.
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