WH Economic Council director Kevin Hassett was pressed repeatedly on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the labor ...

Kevin Hassett said the president wants his own people at the agency to provide “more transparent and reliable” jobs data.

President Donald Trump’s acolytes are scrambling to rationalize his decision to fire the nation’s top labor statistician after she delivered a bruising reality check. Trump was confronted with a weak ...

The director of the White House National Economic Council defended President Trump's firing of the official charged with ...

"This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism," Larry Summers said. "This is really scary stuff." ...

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett criticized the accuracy of recent job numbers and called for a review of the ...

The Senate on Saturday considered some of President Donald Trump's nominations before the August recess.Earlier this week, ...

President Trump on Sunday defended his decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) following a weak jobs report, a move that has sparked broad pushback. Trump in a post on ...

President Trump on Sunday defended the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, an appointee of former President Joe Biden. "Head of the Bureau of of Labor Statistics ...

President Donald Trump singled out a pair of Republican lawmakers for praise after they pushed his agenda on television. The ...

After administration officials spent the morning on the Sunday talk show circuit defending President Trump's firing of the Labor Department's statistics chief, Trump took to his social media account ...

Nate Silver is the founder of 538 and was one of the most prominent polling experts during last year's presidential election.