White House officials rush to defend Trump after a shaky economic week | Trump administration

Donald Trump Administration officials radiated a defense of the presidential policy during Sunday’s American political show, a week of poor economy, trade and employment, which led to the policy. shooting Erika Mcentarfer, head of labor statistics.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Trump has “real concerns” about working numbers that surpass Friday’s report 73,000 jobs added July, well below expectations. In the first two months, the number of job growth also decreased by 285,000.

On the face of CBS News, Greer Defensive Trump decided to fire Mcentarfer, a respected statistician, said: “You want to be able to have some reliable numbers. There will always be modifications, but sometimes you see these revisions go in very extreme ways.”

He added: “The president is the president. He has the option of people who work in the executive branch.”

But William Beach, who served as a commissioner for the Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), warned during his first presidency that McEntarfer’s sack would undermine confidence in the quality of U.S. economic data.

The data for the revisions are not justified by the BLS, but noted that “monthly revisions are caused by other reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and the recalculation of seasonal factors.”

“It’s harmful,” the beach said Sunday at CNN’s ITU State University. “I don’t know there is any reason for this kind of shooting.

“This really hurts the statistical system. It undermines the credibility of BLS.”

McEntarfer released a statement on social media on Friday, responding to her firing, saying it was “honored my life” as a BLS commissioner.

She said the BLS hired “a lot of dedicated civil servants who measured a huge and dynamic economy.”

“This is a crucial work and I thank them for their service to this country,” McEntarfer’s statement on the Bluesky platform said.

A big uproar In Mcentarfer’s shooting, there is already a series of new Tariff rate It was originally scheduled to take effect this month. Although the president predicted the golden age of the U.S. economy, many economists warn that higher import tariffs could eventually undermine U.S. economic activity.

On CBS, Greer said Trump’s tariff rate “has already set a lot” and is unlikely to renegotiate before it takes effect.

The first six months of Trump’s second term were characterized by an announcement of tariff rate announcements, which earned the president’s nickname on Wall Street Tacos – “Trump is always a chicken.” But last week he release one Executive Order After two delays in implementation, tariff changes in dozens of countries were outlined.

However, Greer also said many of the announced tariff rates are “set interest rates based on transactions.”

“Some of these transactions have been announced, and some are determined by the level of trade deficits or surplus we may encounter with the country,” he said.

In NBC’s conference media, Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Commission (NEC), said that now, the modified U.S. tariff rate “is more or less locked in, and while it has to revolve around what we do or that means, it has to dance on the edge.”

When asked if the tariff rate could be changed again, he said: “I would exclude it because these are the final deals.”

On Fox News Sunday, Hassett said he also supported McEntarfer’s sack. “I think what we need is the fresh eyes of BLS, people who can clean up this,” he said.

But former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told ABC this week that McEntarfer’s sack “more than anything Richard Nixon did” and suggested the late former president, who resigned in the 1974 Watergate scandal.

Summers said Trump’s claim of poor jobs is “false” and aims to make him look bad “is a ridiculous allegation.”

“These numbers are grouped together by a team of hundreds of people following detailed procedures in the manual,” Summers said. “There is no possible way to do that the person in charge of the BLS can manipulate this number. These numbers fit what we see from a variety of private sector sources.”

Summers placed Mcentarfer’s shot, Trump’s pressure About Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates, and the government’s powerful tactics against universities, law firms and media organizations in the same barrel.

“It’s a democracy to replace authoritarianism,” Summers said. “Frauding statisticians would threaten the head of the newspaper.

“It has to do with launching an attack on the university. It has launched an attack with a law firm defending clients whose elected bosses found incompatible. It’s really horrible.”