Posted on 10/01/2025 11:00:51 AM PDT by DFG
Conservative economist E.J. Antoni’s nomination to become the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was withdrawn by the White House late Tuesday, with much of the nation’s capital focused on the ongoing drama of the government shutdown.
“Dr. E.J. Antoni is a brilliant economist and an American patriot that will continue to do good work on behalf of our great country,” a White House official said in a statement.
“President Trump is committed to fixing the longstanding failures at the BLS that have undermined the public’s trust in critical economic data. The President plans to announce a new nominee very soon.”
Trump nominated Antoni Aug.11, ten days after firing then-BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a lackluster jobs report that coincided with significant revisions to past figures the bureau released.
Antoni, the chief economist for The Heritage Foundation, was expected to face a close confirmation vote in the Senate amid criticism that he lacked experience both in public serve and in compiling labor data.
Further complicating Atoni’s path to the nomination was a September CNN story that uncovered a since-deleted X account from where he hurled inflammatory insults at Trump’s rivals.
The BLS had revised its payroll growth numbers down by 258,000 for June and May, the steepest two-month downward revision since 1968.
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I don’t know anything about this individual.
What was so controversial?
Was he using the ‘wrong’ kind of math for his statistics?
Something not Common Core.
Some Lib teachers think basic Math is somehow ‘racist’.
I kid you not.
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