President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which he said were "rigged".

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that last week’s jobs report “was rigged” without providing any evidence

President Trump’s pick to run the federal agency that produces the critical U.S. jobs report might not be able to make it more reliable — and a new commissioner could even make the problems worse.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses surveys to collect economic data including employment counts, wages and inflation.

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, claiming the job numbers were "phony" and that the commissioner had "faked" other job figures to help Democrats.

Ali Velshi fact-checks Trump’s claim that economic numbers are ‘rigged’ against him as his trade war continues to roil the American economy.