US President Donald Trump during a “Making Health Technology Great Again” event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. Leading US technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Anthropic, Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and OpenAI Inc., have pledged to work with health systems and the Trump administration to make the nation’s fragmented medical data more useful for patients and providers.Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump fires BLS commissioner after July jobs report

The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

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What to Know

  • President Donald Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a report released today showed U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs last month. Labor Department revisions showed that hiring was much weaker than previously reported in May and June.
  • Part of a busy Friday afternoon, Trump also ordered two U.S. nuclear subs be repositioned following statement's made by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
  • Trump’s new tariff rates of up to 41% on U.S. imports from about 70 countries drew expressions of relief today from the countries that negotiated a deal or managed to whittle them down from rates announced in April.
  • The president previously announced trade agreements with several countries, with duties set to rise for dozens of other trading partners. Trump's order says the new duties take effect on Aug. 7, instead of the Aug. 1 deadline. He told NBC News Thursday night he is open to additional trade deals.
  • Special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee inspected food distribution sites in Gaza earlier today in hopes to secure a plan that delivers more food to the region.

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