Criticism is mounting after President Trump moved to oust the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday following a dismal jobs report.

Trump accused BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer, an appointee of former President Biden, of skewing job numbers in the latest report, which showed the U.S. adding only 73,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate increasing slightly.

Revisions in the report also showed that the U.S. added 258,000 fewer jobs in May and June than the Labor Department first reported, according to BLS data.

"In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad," he wrote on Truth Social. Later, he called for McEntarfer's ouster, which

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