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‘Senior Republican lawmakers are condemning the decision of…Donald #Trump, to fire the leading US labor market statistician after a report that showed the national #economy added just 73,000 jobs…in July. The disappointing figures…point to an overall economic deterioration in the US… “…Republican senator Cynthia Lummis [said], “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate & that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”’ | Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/republicans-trump-bureau-of-labor-statistics-commissioner