President Trump told reporters Sunday he plans to announce a new commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the next three or four days after he fired the previous BLS leader in the wake of a jobs report that found the labor market stalling.
“We’ll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next three, four days,” Trump said as he returned to Washington after a weekend at his property in New Jersey.
Trump on Friday fired Erika McEntarfer, a Biden White House appointee who was confirmed with a bipartisan majority in the Senate in 2024.
The move, which has sparked outrage among economists, Democratic lawmakers and others, came after the jobs report released Friday showed lower than expected hiring in July and major downward revisions to the jobs reports from May and June.
The president also said he would be announcing a nominee to replace Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler, who announced Friday she will resign from the central bank’s board Aug. 8.
Kugler was appointed to the Fed board by former President Biden and confirmed in 2023. She will leave the bank six months before the end of her term in January 2026.
