Trump wants to appoint a new economic statistician chief during the week but that arouses concerns

Trump wants to send a manager appointed by Biden: “She faked the figures”

“Just before the election. Consequently, this woman had released phenomenal figures on the economy of (Joe) Biden. Furthermore, And then, just after the election, they announced that these figures were false. Similarly, (…) My opinion is that it is just one more scam,” added Mr. Meanwhile, Trump. reiterating his accusations according to which the manager swelled the figures in the past in favor of the previous democratic administration.

“The President (Trump) wants his own people (at these posts). so that when we get out of the figures, they are more transparent and reliable,” his main economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, said on the American channel NBC on Sunday evening.

Erika MCENTARFER is the commissioner of the Federal Statistics Office. an organization that publishes the reference trump wants appoint new economic figures on employment, productivity and prices in the United States.

Friday. the monthly report on employment in the United States surprised by painting a darker table than expected of the state of the labor market, at a time when experts are planning an slowdown in economic activity under the effect of the customs offensive of the American president.

In particular. the number of jobs supposed to have been created during the months of May and June was strongly revised downwards. Additionally, The corrected figures (19,000 in May and 14,000 in June) are displayed at the lowest since the Pandemic of COVID-19.

“If I directed the Federal Statistics Office. I had a figure that included an enormous and important revision politically, then I would have given a very long report explaining what happened. And we did not have that,” added Hassett.