Trump To Nominate E.j. Antoni As New Commissioner Of Labor Statistics

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he planned to nominate E.J. Antoni arsenic nan caller commissioner of nan Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump said successful a Truth Social post that "E.J. will guarantee that nan Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE."

Antoni’s planned information comes aft Trump fired erstwhile commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours aft a weaker-than-expected jobs study connected Aug. 1. Trump said, without evidence, that nan jobs study for July was “RIGGED successful bid to make nan Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

Antoni did not instantly respond to NBC News’ petition for remark Monday. He is nan main economist astatine nan blimpish Heritage Foundation and has written a number of pieces for nan deliberation vessel that are highly complimentary of nan Trump administration.

One of Antoni’s caller reports said that nan June jobs report, earlier it was revised, was a “home run” for nan president.

Steve Bannon, a elder advisor to Trump successful his first term, had been pushing difficult for Antoni’s nomination. Antoni, a contributor to nan Project 2025 argumentation rubric, has been a longtime skeptic of BLS data. On Bannon’s podcast past week, Antoni called for McEntarfer to beryllium fired soon earlier Trump pulled nan trigger.

Multiple erstwhile BLS commissioners said aft McEntarfer's firing that nan caput of labour statistic does not person a domiciled successful compiling nan jobs study and is only briefed connected its figures soon earlier it is released to nan public.

In that report, nan BLS reported that nan U.S. system added conscionable 73,000 jobs successful July. The agency besides said it had revised nan May and June numbers and that they turned retired to beryllium little than antecedently announced, by much than 200,000 jobs.

The BLS routinely revises economical information specified arsenic nan jobs report, gross home merchandise figures and ostentation data. Due to nan standard of nan U.S. system and consequence rates to BLS surveys, location tin often beryllium lags successful information collection. But that lag does not connote immoderate wrongdoing aliases manipulation.