Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Kristi Noem Isn’t the Only One Who Lost Her Job

Nonfarm payrolls fell 92,000 in February. So much for the labor market stabilizing.

March 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

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Man oh man, just when everything was going so well for US President Donald Trump — the Kristi Noem dumpster fire had been extinguished, the word “Epstein” had been banished to headlines across the pond and, of course, the punching down and sucking up were both going gangbusters — this had to happen: