How Trump firing a data chief threatens jobs-stats credibility

特朗普解雇数据总监如何威胁就业统计数据可信度

Apple News Today

2025-08-04

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Trump fired a key official after she delivered some bad news about jobs numbers. Courtenay Brown with Axios explains what that means for the credibility of government statistics, and unpacks what we learned about the U.S. economy from last week’s flurry of news. As Trump pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine, many thousands of children taken from the country to Russia are still missing. Simon Shuster, a senior correspondent at Time, joins to discuss his reporting. It’s been one month since severe rain and flash floods overwhelmed Texas Hill Country and killed at least 135 people. During public hearings, state lawmakers have scrutinized the official disaster response and heard from survivors. Emily Foxhall with the Texas Tribune unpacks the key takeaways. Plus, Hamas released videos of emaciated Israeli hostages, why state lawmakers in Texas are temporarily fleeing, and the Russian region shaken by an earthquake is now contending with a volcano. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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  • Good morning.

  • It's Monday, August 4th.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • This is Apple News today.

  • On today's show, where have Ukraine's missing.

  • Children gone and can the country ever get them back?

  • One month after the Texas floods, officials.

  • Are still piecing together what should have gone differently.

  • And in Russia, first an earthquake, then a volcanic eruption.

  • But first to another unprecedented firing from the White House.

  • On Friday,

  • President Trump received some weaker than expected jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  • The economy added about 73,000 jobs in.

  • July, which was lower than expected.

  • But the more surprising figures were from May and June,

  • where hiring numbers were downgraded by a quarter million jobs fewer than had previously been reported.

  • Rather than accept the findings, Trump fired.

  • The labor bureau commissioner, Erica McIntarfer, for delivering the bad news.

  • He justified his decision by claiming, without.

  • Any evidence that she had somehow rigged the numbers and was politically motivated.