White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett justified President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner last week, saying on Sunday the jobs data reporting out of the agency had become “very unreliable.”

“What we need is a fresh set of eyes over the BLS,” Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

Trump ordered the removal of BLS chief Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, on Friday over the jobs numbers report that came out that day because “we didn’t believe the numbers,” he told Newsmax, adding she was “very suspect.”

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