When the July jobs report was first released on Aug. 1, it didn’t feel any different for Erika McEntarfer, former commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared to when other employment reports came out.

But that quickly changed after she learned that President Donald Trump had taken to Truth Social to publicly announce her firing. Soon, she was on her way to “becoming a household name,” McEntarfer said Tuesday in her first public remarks since her departure from the BLS.

McEntarfer was fired after the BLS reported that the U.S. economy added just 73,000 jobs in July and the monthly totals for May and June were revised down by a combined 258,000 jobs. Trump claimed, without evidence, that the disappointing jobs report had been “rigged.”

Her lecture at the Levy Economics Inst

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