Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted that the Bureau of Labor Statistics' new jobs report Friday would be more accurate because President Donald Trump fired former Commissioner Erika McEntarfer last month.

Lutnick made that prediction less than an hour before BLS said job growth stalled out in August.

"I think they'll get better," Lutnick told CNBC's " Squawk Box " after he was asked if people should believe the BLS' numbers will be accurate.

That's because "you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president," he said.

"The holdovers from the Biden administration" were "rooting against America and against Donald Trump, and that's got to end," Lutnick said in response to another question about whether the Trump administration now cons

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