US President Donald Trump says he'll soon name a new labor statistics head after firing Erika McEntarfer, Reuters reports.
“We're seeing phenomenal numbers in terms of the business we do with other countries and the business we do within our own country. I mean, really phenomenal numbers. We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next three, four days," Trump said.
Trump also said he'll announce a new Fed governor candidate in the coming days
“I have a couple of people in mind [for the Fed]. I'll be announcing somebody for the filling of the person that left. A woman left, as you know, who was a, I guess a Biden appointment — either Biden or Obama, but I think a Biden appointment - and she left early. And I think she left because she agreed with me on interest rates, and yet they were on the other side of the ballpark. Right? So, I'll be announcing that probably over the next couple of days.”
The Fed said on Friday (August 1) that Governor Adriana Kugler was resigning early from her term, leaving an opening for Trump, a sharp critic of the U.S. central bank's leadership, to fill.
Trump also said he would announce a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) within three or four days. He fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after accusing her of faking jobs numbers, without providing any evidence of data manipulation.
Trump also said that Americans could get some kind of dividend or distribution of money as a result of tariffs being imposed on U.S. trading partners.
