National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday backed President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing an alleged "partisan pattern" in U.S. job data reporting. In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Hassett referenced the timing of a preliminary benchmark revision released in August 2024 – shortly after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. The revision revealed that job gains from March 2023 through March 2024 had been overstated by 818,000 jobs. Hassett said it represented the "biggest data revisio...

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