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Trump fired Erika McEntarfer Aug. 1 after the July jobs report showed hiring slowed sharply this spring, with job gains in May and June revised much lower.
E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick as commissioner of Labor Statistics, recently endorsed halting monthly jobs reports until the methodology is changed.
The Trump administration is tapping MAGA loyalist E.J. Antoni for the top job at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. MSNBC’s ...
The Federal Reserve would find it harder to assess economic conditions in the absence of real-time data, some economists say.
The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often ...
The White House celebrated new figures showing inflation held steady in July, and moved to install new leadership at the ...
The White House on Tuesday said it is "the plan" that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will continue to publish its closely ...
Trump announced on social media that E.J. Antoni will be the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni ...
Emails obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act suggest an agency with little of the corrupting partisanship that President Trump had claimed.
EJ Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has suggested suspending the agency’s monthly jobs reports and publishing only quarterly numbers until issues with data ...
Antoni's nomination comes a week after he posted on social media criticizing the Bureau of Labor's leadership and data.