Fox & Friends hosts pushed debunked claims that the BLS inflated jobs data to boost Biden, backing Trump’s firing of the agency's chief as justified.

The BLS report Friday said that 73,000 jobs were added in July, but Heather Long, corporate economist for Navy Federal Credit Union, said in a statement, "The labor market is deteriorating quickly.

Trump calls fired BLS commissioner’s job numbers the ‘biggest miscalculations in over 50 years’ By Sophia Compton, Fox Business Published Aug. 4, 2025, 3:13 a.m. ET ...