GOP Senators Condemn Firing Of Labor Stats Chief

The Guardian reports:

“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” said Wyoming Republican senator Cynthia Lummis. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.” North Carolina senator Thom Tillis, a Republican, said: “If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up.”

Kentucky senator Rand Paul questioned whether McEntarfer’s firing was an effective way of improving the numbers. “We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” he said. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.” Paul said his “first impression” was that “you can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting”.

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DID THE GOP FIND THEIR COLLECTIVE SPINE? DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH, BUT WE WILL TAKE THIS: Republicans slam Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief https://t.co/jMSQCDHe9g

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