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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers blasted President Donald Trump's firing of a top Bureau of Labor Statistics official.
A rush transcript of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday, August 3, 2025 on ABC News is below. This copy ...
LARRY SUMMERS, ERIC HOLDER, AND DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CEO AVRIL BENOÎT, SUNDAY ON “THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS” ...
Speaking to ABC News, the former former Treasury Secretary told broadcasters that “This is way beyond anything Richard Nixon ...
The president fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after the agency published a negative jobs report.
The president unceremoniously sacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' top boss after weak employment numbers were released ...
Larry Summers thinks Donald Trump has sunk lower than one of the most ill-remembered presidents in U.S. history.
"This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism," Larry Summers said. "This is really scary stuff." ...
President Donald Trump has for months tried to pressure Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to resign from his post if he doesn't cut interest rates.
The firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer came just hours after the Labor Department reported that the US added only 73 ...