Trump news at a glance: president lashes out at Schumer as officials defend his economic policies | Trump administration
It’s not a brilliant weekend for Donald Trump. On Sunday, the administration officials moved to American political programs to defend the president’s policies after a deadly week of bad economic, commercial and jobs that led to the dismissal of the Labor Statistics, Erika Mcentarfer.
US trade representative Jamieson Greer said Trump had “real concerns” concerning the job figures that extend beyond Friday report which showed that the national economy had added 73,000 jobs in July, well below expectations. Employment growth figures have also been revised 285,000 for the previous two months.
On the face of CBS News The Nation, Greer defended Trump’s decision to dismiss Mcentarfer, a respected statistician, saying: “You want to have somewhat reliable figures. There are always revisions, but sometimes you see these revisions in a really extreme way. ”
This occurs when the president himself was unleashed to the Democrat leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer on social networks, saying to him: “Go to hell!” After an impasse from the Senate on confirmations.
“The president is the president”
The US trade representative Jamieson Greer defended the dismissal of the Labor Statistics Erika Mcentarfer. “The president is the president. He can choose who works in the executive power,” he said on Face The Nation.
Greer was part of a multitude of officials from the Trump administration who were deployed to defend Trump after a week of deadly economic numbers.
William Beach, who was a commissioner of Trump of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in his first presidency, warned that Mcentarfer’s dismissal would be confidence in the quality of American economic data.
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The president tells Chuck Schumer to “go to hell”
The American Senate left Washington DC on Saturday evening for its recreation of a month of August without an agreement to advance dozens of nominees for Donald Trump, calling it after days of litigious bipartic negotiations and the president going to social networks to tell the Democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer to “go to hell!”
Without agreement, the Republicans say that they can try to modify the rules of the Senate upon their return in September to accelerate the pace of confirmations. Trump put pressure on senators to move quickly while the Democrats blocked more candidates than usual this year, denying any quick vote of unanimous consent and forcing the calls to Lalaine on each, a long process that can take several days by candidate.
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The Trump administration refuses a daily quota for immigration arrests
In a new judicial file, lawyers for the Trump administration have rejected the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite the previous reports and declarations of the White House officials concerning an objective of at least 3,000 deportations or arrests of expulsion per day.
Lawyers representing the United States Ministry of Justice said that the Ministry of Internal Security had confirmed that “neither the Ice Directorate nor its offices on the ground had been invited to reach any digital or target quota for arrests, detention, moves, meetings on the ground or any other operational activity that ice or its components undertake during the Federal Immigration Act.”
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The Senate confirms Trump Ally Jeanine Pirro as the main federal prosecutor for DC
The US Senate confirmed Jeanine Pirro – a former Fox News host and a agitated ally of Donald Trump who stimulated lies that he lost the presidential race in 2020 due to electoral fraudsters – as the main federal prosecutor of the national capital.
PIRRO – A former district prosecutor of New York State and Comté judge who joined Fox News in 2011 – was confirmed on Saturday during a vote of 50-45 according to the party parties.
In a statement published by Pirro after the vote, the Republican said that she had been “blessed” to have been confirmed as a Washington DC lawyer. “Prepare yourself for a real crime fighter,” said Pirro’s statement, who called the American prosecutor’s office, she had been confirmed to lead the largest in the country.
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