Trump to nominate E.J. Antoni as new labor statistics commissioner

President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate E.J. Antoni as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, citing his commitment to ensuring that economic figures are “HONEST and ACCURATE.” This nomination follows the firing of former commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing jobs report, and Antoni, a chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, has been a vocal skeptic of BLS data.

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