NEW: Trump Fires Top Official For Allegedly Working Against The Administration

Slumping jobs data out of the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics has cost a federal commissioner their job after President Donald Trump accused the individual of misrepresenting figures to distort the picture of a healthy economy.

Erika McEntarfer, commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was let go by Trump, he said in a Truth Social post while accusing her of being a political appointee who weaponized her office’s oversight of the labor market.

“I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances of Victory,” Trump wrote.

“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he added.

NBC News confirmed thta McEntarfer was sent home for good on Friday. She previously worked under Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s secretary of labor.

The shocking development came after BLS reported that just 73,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were added in July, underperforming economists’ expectations. In addition, jobs reports for May and June were revised lower, cutting a combined 258,000 from the total for both months.

The change brings U.S. jobs added to the economy to just 35,000 over the past three months.

It was the biggest downward revision of jobs since April 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, CNBC reported.

Trump and fellow Republicans have taken aim in the past at the BLS for its downward revisions, which are made when a more complete accounting of the jobs marketing can be made using additional long-term data trends.

“Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes,” the president wrote. “McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative.”

Prior to Friday’s news, Trump had been trumpeting jobs reports at the start of each month, most recently when he declared a “June Boom.”

“The Economy is BOOMING under ‘TRUMP’ despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting ‘Kamala’ elected – How did that work out?” Trump wrote. “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell should also be put ‘out to pasture.’”

The weak report led to a drop in stock markets with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shaving off 500 points while the Nasdaq fell 2% at the market close.