President Donald Trump announced that he plans to nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Trump said in a Truth Social post that “E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE.” Antoni’s planned nomination comes after Trump fired former commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after a weaker-than-expected jobs report on Aug. 1. Trump said, without evidence, that the jobs repo
Trump to nominate longtime skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics as new agency head
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