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Jason Furman, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, but also a critic of President Joe Biden's stimulus measures, said Antoni is "completely unqualified" and an "extreme partisan."

Jessica Riedl, a former Heritage Foundation research fellow now at the conservative Manhattan Institute, said his articles and tweets "are probably the most error-filled or any think tank economist right now." Jeremy Horpedahl of the libertarian Cato Institute said he "either massively misunderstands labor market data, or he is willing to lie repeatedly about after being corrected by dozens of economists." Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute, often described as a center-right think tank, called him "utterly unqualified and as partisan as it gets."

Ahead of his nomination, Antoni defended the firing of Erika McEntarfer as BLS commissioner and made the case for reform of the agency.

"That person has overseen problems in the data for three years now," he said on C-Span. "That has been confirmed by the fact the BLS will publish one series of number, and later, publish another series of data that contradicts it," he said.
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Antoni similarly received pushback for his claim that import price declines reflected a lack of pass-through of tariffs, since import prices are reported before the effect of tariffs and other taxes.

Antoni has pointed out that foreign-born jobs growth has outpaced native born without noting that the native-born working population has stagnated due to retirements and lower birthrates.