U.S. President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, chief economist for the Heritage Foundation, to replace Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics who he fired last week after a disappointing jobs report.
"Antoni, a contributor to the Project 2025 policy rubric, has been a longtime skeptic of BLS data. On [Steve] Bannon’s podcast last week, Antoni called for McEntarfer to be fired shortly before Trump pulled the trigger," NBC reports.
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