Former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner William Beach — a Trump nominee —said every number on the jobs chart President Donald Trump touted in the Oval Office on Thursday was wrong.
Still bitter over last week’s “rigged” jobs report, which showed weaker-than-expected job growth, Trump convened an impromptu press conference Thursday evening to showcase graphs with what he called “all-new numbers.”
Stephen Moore, a Heritage Foundation economist, said during the press conference that the numbers justified Trump’s firing of former BLS Chief Erika McEntarfer. He estimated that over the last two years of President Joe Biden’s administration, the BLS overestimated job creation by 1.5 million jobs.
In an interview with Fortune, Moore said he disagreed with the president th