President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation and a longtime critic of the Bureau of Labor and Statics, to lead the agency.
“Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE,” Trump wrote Monday evening on Truth Social. “I know E.J. Antoni will do an incredible job in this new role. Congratulations E.J.!”
Antoni’s nomination comes less than a week after Trump fired the agency’s former commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, just hours after it reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near halt.