(NewsNation) — An economist aligned with President Donald Trump isn’t backing White House claims that monthly U.S. job numbers have been rigged against the Republican, but he says it’s high time for calculation methods to be revamped for better accuracy.

Stephen Moore joined the president Thursday for a news conference in which he helped tout the Trump administration’s economic policies and inserted himself into the controversy over the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Trump fired the head of BLS after accusing the bureaucrat of revising downward recent monthly job tallies to make him look bad, even though corrections have been a hallmark of the process.

Moore said he doesn’t see a political subtext but agrees BLS has produced inaccurate figures. He says the agency overestimated by 1.5 millio

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