{"id":3317,"date":"2025-08-05T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/firing-of-labor-statistics-head-undermines-trust-in-key-data-ex-trump-official-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:12:56","slug":"firing-of-labor-statistics-head-undermines-trust-in-key-data-ex-trump-official-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/firing-of-labor-statistics-head-undermines-trust-in-key-data-ex-trump-official-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as \u201crigged\u201d and \u201cmanipulated for political purposes.\u201d Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics during the first Trump term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as \u201crigged\u201d and \u201cmanipulated for political purposes.\u201d Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}