On October 24, 2023, EJ Antoni from the Heritage Foundation testifies to a subcommittee of Justice of the US Senate (Screenshot from C-Span)
Washington – President Donald Trump nominated the conservative economist EJ Antoni to fill the top position in the Bureau of Labor Statistics after having fired the previous statistician abruptly after a disappointing job report at the beginning of this month.
Trump announced the candidate on his social platform in his social platform and explained: “Our economy booms and EJ will ensure that the published numbers are honest and accurate.”
Antoni, an economist at the right-wing extremist Heritage Foundation, criticized the previous BLS commissioner Erika Mcectarfer, who was nominated in 2023 by former President Joe Biden and was confirmed by the US Senate 86-6 In January 2024. The office is pursuing national economic data, including employment figures.
Without providing evidence, Trump hit the latest jobs, which was released on August 1st, as “manipulated” and fired from Mcenfer hours later.
According to the monthly, the economy collected only 73,000 jobs in July report. The BLS numbers in May and June were also significantly adapted to 33,000 in both months, according to the previously reported 291,000. Revisions in previous reports are often made after the office has received updated data from companies and federal authorities.
The recording of business data in the USA is often referred to as the “gold standard”, as chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, a Trump representative, said last month.
Trump looked against Mcencentarfer, including his former BLS commissioner.
William Beach, whom Trump typed in 2017 as head of BLS, told CNN Mcentarfer’s shot “unfounded”.
BLS data are “more precise than 30 years ago,” said Beach during August 3 on August 3 interview.
Antoni said Antoni said that the BLS data recording was “outdated” in an appearing on August 4 in Steve Bannon’s Warroom Podcast by Antoni.
“You need someone who is ready to revise the whole thing,” he said to Bannon.
Shortly after Trump’s November victory, Antoni posted on X that “Doge has to bring a chainsaw to BLS”.
Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation, said on Tuesday that Trump had made an “outstanding choice” in the nomination of Antoni.
“EJ Antoni is one of the sharpest economic minds of nation-a fearless truth seller who grabs that the solid economy has to serve the interests of American families and not the globalist elites,” said Roberts in a statement. “His leadership as a chief economist at the Heritage Foundation was significantly involved in protecting our mission to protect American families and rebuilding a resilient economy that is rooted in the open company.”
Antoni contributed to the Heritage Foundation Project 2025A around 900 pages of right -wing extremist blueprint to revise government institutions published before Trump’s election victory.
Antoni will need the Senate approval, which currently has a republican majority of 53-47.
Senator Patty Murray, a high-ranking member and former chairman of the Senate Committee for Health, Education, work and pensions, beat Antoni as a “unrestricted right-wing extremist who will not think twice about whether he manipulates BLS data and to make the credibility of the agency happy”.
“Every senator who votes to confirm this partisan hack is true to destroy the integrity of our nation’s best economic and job data that underpins our entire economy. If EJ Antoni is confirmed, I hope that republicans will play like playing make-fur because everything will be BLS data,” said the state of the state of Washington, the Democrat of the Democrat in a statement on Tuesday.
Senator Bill Cassidy is the chairman of the committee who has the task of passing on Antoni’s nomination to the full Senate. Cassidy from Louisiana had no explanation of Antoni on his website or X -Feed from Tuesday at 3 p.m.
