Thursday, August 14, 2025

Trump's Nominee to Oversee Jobs and Inflation Data Faces Criticism

The director of the agency that produces the nation's jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat ...

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I've leave it to the smart people to explain how terrifying Trump's nomination EJ Antoni to run BLS is. But the garbage in-garbage out problem seems important. Trump is implementing Heritage 2025's policies, all of them. Now Antoni will tell us those policies are working when they aren't.

-- emptywheel (
@emptywheel.bsky.social) Aug 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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... Trump has selected E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to be the next commissioner at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni's nomination was quickly met with a cascade of criticism from other economists, from across the political spectrum.

His selection threatens to bring a new level of politicization to what for decades has been a nonpartisan agency widely accepted as a producer of reliable measures of the nation's economic health. ...


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#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-13 02:00 AM

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#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-13 11:13 AM

"His selection threatens to bring a new level of politicization to what for decades has been a nonpartisan agency widely accepted as a producer of reliable measures of the nation's economic health."

Trump doesn't want that; he wants flattery; "Oh Donald, this is the greatest economy ever! We've got so many new jobs that we're going to have to beg those deported folks to come back!. Probably offer free flight here and a green card on arrival! It's Trump leadership; just like tariffs reversal of policy is determined by popularity polls!

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-14 10:54 AM

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