Democrats slam Trump firing of labor statistics head: ‘Insane,’ ‘Soviet,’ ‘authoritarian’
Senate Democrats reacted with outrage and disbelief to the news that President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report that showed the economy gained only 73,000 jobs in July and did far worse than previously reported in May and June. “Just absolutely insane,…
