President Donald Trump directed his Administration on Friday to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a report that showed that the U.S. added fewer jobs in July than many economists had expected,

US President Donald Trump is planning to sack Billy Long, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, after less than two months in the job, a White House official said on Friday. The abrupt removal of the chief of the US government’s tax collection and enforcement agency caps a period of extraordinary turmoil and turnover at the IRS.

President Trump said he will fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the independent government agency reported weak jobs numbers for July and the preceding month. Why it matters: Trump is turning his ire about poor jobs numbers on the number-crunchers.