Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said on X that McEntarfer was no longer leading the bureau and that William Wiatrowski, the deputy commissioner, would serve as the acting director.

President Donald Trump called for the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be dismissed, alleging there were political motivations behind the downward revisions included in the latest employment report.

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.