WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday he was nominating career economist Brett Matsumoto to be commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, months after he fired the previous chief on the heels of a weak jobs report.
“I am confident that Brett has the expertise to QUICKLY fix the long history of issues at the BLS on behalf of the American People,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Trump fired then-commissioner Erika McEntarfer, appointed by former President Joe Biden, in August, accusing her without evidence of manipulating the July figures, which showed unexpectedly slow employment growth and which greatly revised down nonfarm payrolls for the prior two months.