President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed weak job growth, prompting outcries from economists to lawmakers and raising concerns over the integrity of the data going forward.

The U.S. dollar edged up on Monday after suffering sharp losses last week following a weaker-than-expected July jobs report and President Donald Trumps abrupt firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner

President Donald Trump on Friday fired a top Labor Department official on the heels of a market-shocking weak scorecard of the U.S. job market, accusing her without evidence of manipulating the figures and adding to already growing concerns about the quality of economic data published by the federal government.