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Trump picks conservative BLS critic to lead BLS

Donald Trump continued to rage at media figures overnight, this time former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Trump ...

Trump’s BLS pick is an ‘extreme partisan’ with no technical understanding of data: Jason Furman

President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the new ...

‘The world is not going to trust our data’: Donald Trump’s BLS pick sparks alarm

Donald Trump’s sacking of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ boss after a grim jobs report earlier this month sparked investor fears that he was politicising the world’s most closely watched economic ...

Why Trump taping a BLS skeptic to lead agency is 'just a very bad idea'

President Trump says he is nominating E.J. Antoni to be the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. Antoni has been a ...
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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 ...

Why Trump tapping a BLS skeptic to lead the agency is ‘just a very bad idea’

President Trump says he is nominating E.J. Antoni to be the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. Antoni has been a ...

Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism

Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the ...

Inflation held firm in July amid Trump tariff push

Consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in July, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as the ...