The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get better.

Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s chainsaw contributed to the downward employment revisions that drew President Trump’s ire and led to the now-infamous firing of the labor statistics commissioner.