The former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is lashing out at President Donald Trump after her firing.
The president publicly fired Erika McEntarfer in August after the “Biden appointee” revised the May and June jobs reports, claiming she had done the same thing in the past “to try and boost Kamala’s chances of victory.” Citing the need for accurate job numbers as the country struggles to right itself economically, Trump fired her and vowed to replace her with someone “much more competent and qualified.”
On Tuesday, McEntarfer spoke out for the first time since her public canning. During a lecture at her alma mater, Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, she spoke about learning of her firing and how she believes the move is “dangerous.”
“Firing your chief statistician is a dangerous step. That’s an attack on the independence of an institution arguably as important as the Federal Reserve for economic stability. It has serious economic consequences, but that they would do this with no warning — it made no sense,” she said, as reported by CNN.
“Messing with economic data is like messing with the traffic lights and turning the sensors off. Cars don’t know where to go, traffic backs up at intersections,” she added, somewhat ironically.
“She acknowledged that the downward jobs revisions from prior months’ employment reports, which were included in the July jobs report, were unusually large. This prompted her to devote more time during the briefing to explain why that was the case, she said,” CNN reported.
In explaining why such large revisions were made so long after the data was published, McEntarfer pointed the finger of blame at “late-responding firms.”
“She told White House economists that revisions as large as the May and June jobs data tend to occur ‘when the economy slows,’ she said,” the outlet wrote. “During the briefing, White House officials asked her: Was the skew disproportionately among small firms, and when was the last time this happened?”
“It was a pretty broad-based, negative skew,” the former bureau head explained, adding this had happened during the beginning of the pandemic when businesses couldn’t be bothered responding to the survey in a timely manner “because they’re just too busy trying to stay alive.”
McEntarfer also said that she didn’t even know she had been fired until a reporter reached out to her for comment regarding the president’s Truth Social post. Then came the official notice: “Dr. McEntarfer: On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position at the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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