Trump fires BLS chief and nominates Project 2025 loyalist who soon withdraws

Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and nominated Patrick Tyrrell, a Heritage Foundation fellow who co-authored Project 2025 proposals to restructure federal statistical agencies. Tyrrell withdrew within days after Senate opposition coalesced around concerns that he had publicly advocated changing how unemployment and inflation are measured. The episode marked the second Trump attempt in a week to install ideological allies atop federal economic data agencies.