The government statistician President Trump fired for releasing a gloomy jobs report last month warned that her firing is a bad omen for the American economy.

Erika McEntarfer, a labor economist who led the Bureau of Labor Statistics, spoke publicly on Tuesday for the first time since her abrupt firing via Truth Social on August 1.

“Firing your chief statistician is a dangerous step,” McEntarfer said during a lecture she gave at Bard College, her alma mater.

“That’s an attack on the independence of an institution arguably as important as the Federal Reserve for economic stability,” she said, adding that interfering with economic data “is like messing with the traffic lights.”

“Cars don’t know where to go, traffic backs up at intersections.”

The BLS tracks employment and inflation

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