The House Education and the Workforce Committee is unlikely to fulfill a request from House Democrats to hold a congressional hearing on President Donald Trump‘s decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner over a weak jobs report last week.

Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report. Actually, check that: That's not really the news as it is, that's the news as it was reported last week when it happened.

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on federal economic data say it’s too early to declare U.S. economic data untrustworthy, public trust in these essential information collection systems has been weakened.