Trump says he’s nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner

Controversy over Trump’s new Bureau of Labor Statistics chief

The appointment of E. J. Antoni, to what is supposedly a non-partisan position in the administration, is another significant step in Trump’s efforts to establish a personalised regime.

Economists across the political spectrum question Trump labor statistics nominee's credentials

President Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

White House hopes monthly U.S. jobs report to continue despite claim by labour statistics nominee

Donald Trump's selection as next commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics threatens to bring a new level of politicization to what for decades has been a nonpartisan agency issuing reports on the nation's economic health, according to Democrats and some economists.

Should Asset Managers Trust Future BLS Data?

The president’s audacious firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics may not cause asset managers to mistrust government data — but much depends on who gets confirmed as successor for the agency.  President Donald Trump last week shocked economists, market watchers and the wider financial services world when he announced the firing of BLS head Erika McEntarfer (no small accomplishment amid rumors of a UFC fight on the White House lawn …

Trump’s BLS commissioner nominee EJ Antoni calls Social Security a “Ponzi scheme”

Frequent right-wing media guest and Project 2025 contributor E.J. Antoni — President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired its previous commissioner following a bad jobs report — has on multiple occasions called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.”  Antoni, widely regarded as a “partisan,” has repeatedly suggested changing the way BLS collects and reports on data, and even called for suspending some of the bureau…