White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields told Newsmax that “competency” is a requirement for the government to release an accurate analysis of employment numbers.

Fields told Newsmax’s “National Report” on Monday that the firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer was based on the accuracy of her work. “Well, I would say the first thing is competence. You have to have competence in leading this bureau.”

Fields said it is more than a reasonable expectation that data included in a government report should be correct. “Listen, K Street, Wall Street, and Main Street all look at these numbers as an indication of how the economy is doing. If we have questions as to how accurate these numbers are, when you have massive revisions, we have a problem. So we’re looking at the competency of this individual. We don’t think it’s there.”

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