Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible.

I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor.

- Robert Reich

One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal responsibilities was to guard the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Otherwise, this crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy would be compromised. If politicized, it would no longer be trusted as a source of information.

So what does Trump do? In one fell swoop on Friday, he essentially destroyed the credibility of the BLS.

Trump didn't like the fact that the BLS revised downward its jobs reports for April and May.

Well, that's too bad. Revisions in monthly jobs reports are nothing new. They're made when the bureau gets more or better information over time, which it often does.