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LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts) Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:22 PM Aug 12

Trump's pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

Source: CNN

EJ Antoni, nominated by President Donald Trump Monday to become the next commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested that the agency should suspend its monthly jobs report, claiming it is unreliable and frequently overstated.

Antoni, in an interview with Fox Business News that took place before his nomination and was published Tuesday, said the BLS should instead publish quarterly data after it had been revised until BLS can ensure its monthly jobs data is more accurate.

“Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data,” he told Fox Business. “Major decision-makers from Wall Street to D.C. rely on these numbers, and a lack of confidence in the data has far-reaching consequences.”

Trump fired former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the July jobs report showed weak growth that month and included revisions for May and June that were historically large. Trump claimed, without evidence, the revisions constituted a “scam” and a vendetta against his presidency.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/economy/antoni-bls-mulls-suspending-jobs-report

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Trump's pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 OP

The jobs numbers will be bad. So Trump doesn't want you to see them. LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author mahatmakanejeeves Aug 12 #4

Nick @nickbraun0 This guy looks like he sells online courses on how to scam the elderly. riversedge Aug 12 #2

Maddow Blog-With new labor statistics nominee, Trump heads in a radical and hazardous direction LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 #3

Economics departments worldwide should be busy downloading every bit of archived BLS data. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 12 #5

This orangecrush Aug 12 #11

We can't having something as dangerous as the truth out in public, can we? Wait, are we talking jobs or Epstein? Scalded Nun Aug 12 #6

'Absolute worst': Outrage as Trump taps economist known for 'viral dishonest analyses' LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 #7

Some of EJ Antoni's "Greatest Hits" Wiz Imp Aug 12 #8

Even right wing economists think he's terrible Wiz Imp Aug 12 #9

Oh My God. He did a podcast in front of a picture of a Nazi warship Wiz Imp Aug 12 #10

The NAZI Warshup is disturbing LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 #17

What does the EJ stand for? Prairie Gates Aug 12 #12

E is for Erwin. NT mahatmakanejeeves Aug 12 #14

Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order" LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 #13

He's the Alina Habba of Stephen Moores. NT mahatmakanejeeves Aug 12 #15

Resurfaced podcast reveals that Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee is a Project 2025 author. LetMyPeopleVote Aug 12 #16

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts)

1. The jobs numbers will be bad. So Trump doesn't want you to see them.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:32 PM

Aug 12

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #1)

mahatmakanejeeves This message was self-deleted by its author.

riversedge

(77,258 posts)

2. Nick @nickbraun0 This guy looks like he sells online courses on how to scam the elderly.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:06 PM

Aug 12

umm I would not buy anything from him. NOPE!

Nick @nickbraun0
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This guy looks like he sells online courses on how to scam the elderly.

@MeidasTouch 34m
🚨 Trump's new BLS nominee E.J. Antoni suggests pausing the monthly jobs report: Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts)

3. Maddow Blog-With new labor statistics nominee, Trump heads in a radical and hazardous direction

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:33 PM

Aug 12

The president said E.J. Antoni, his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a “highly respected economist.” That’s not even close to being true.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-labor-statistics-nominee-trump-heads-radical-hazardous-direction-rcna224485

But that’s not all he did. The president also vowed to nominate an even better BLS chief, and on Monday afternoon, the public learned of his choice: E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group that used to have a reputation as a prominent think tank. NBC News reported:

.....Jason Furman, for example, is an accomplished Harvard economist who chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, and he responded to Antoni’s nomination this way: “I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before. But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.”

Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, added, “Let’s focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague). This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.....

Going forward, everyone — from policymakers to economists, Federal Reserve officials to investors, business owners to regular ol’ American workers — will now have reason to question the integrity of the data from the U.S. government.

mahatmakanejeeves

(66,375 posts)

5. Economics departments worldwide should be busy downloading every bit of archived BLS data.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:45 PM

Aug 12

Count on those to disappear.

orangecrush

(26,291 posts)

11. This

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:44 PM

Aug 12

Scalded Nun

(1,474 posts)

6. We can't having something as dangerous as the truth out in public, can we? Wait, are we talking jobs or Epstein?

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:10 PM

Aug 12

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts)

7. 'Absolute worst': Outrage as Trump taps economist known for 'viral dishonest analyses'

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:42 PM

Aug 12

This asshole is not qualified and is very dishonest. trump will get the numbers he wants but no one will trust these numbers

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-2673876408

Critics bemoaned President Donald Trump's decision to nominate a top Heritage Foundation economist as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics......

Jeremy Horpedahl, an associate professor at the University of Central Arkansas, warned on X ahead of the announcement, "This is a terrible idea. Antoni either massively misunderstands labor market data, or he is willing to lie repeatedly about after being corrected by dozens of economistsQuoteBrian Schwartz."

Spencer Hakimian, founder of Tolou Capital Management, wrote on X, "Lmao get ready for a +27 million job month in 2 weeks."

Matthew Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, wrote on X: "The morning Trump fired the BLS commissioner, Antoni was on Steve Bannon’s show explaining that the lack of a 'MAGA Republican' in the post was 'why we continue to have all these data problems.'"

Brendan Duke, senior director of Federal Budget Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, wrote on X that "Antoni has distinguished himself with his lack of shame in producing viral dishonest analyses that have been criticized by honest conservative analysts. If he brings that lack of shame to the production official economic statistics, their reliability could be in question.".....

And Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias wrote on X, "Antoni’s commentary on economic data over the past few years has been some of the absolute worst around. For the sake of the country I hope this guy is a huge liar and his various statements don’t reflect sincere incompetence."

Wiz Imp

(6,647 posts)

8. Some of EJ Antoni's "Greatest Hits"

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:21 PM

Aug 12

Wiz Imp

(6,647 posts)

9. Even right wing economists think he's terrible

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:28 PM

Aug 12

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ej-antoni-bls-trump-jobs-report-suspend_n_689b677ee4b09184403ef04e

Stan Veuger, a senior economist with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said it’s clear Antoni’s job would be to flatter the president. Cooking the books at BLS would be a tricky task, however, considering how many people are involved in collecting and collating the data.

“It’s difficult for him to go in there and just put out different numbers that are fake,” Veuger told HuffPost. “But I guess if you don’t put out any numbers, you won’t infuriate Trump.”

Veuger is one of many right-leaning policy experts who criticized Antoni’s nomination even before hearing of his proposal to shut down the jobs numbers. The critics have pointed to overt partisanship and hack analyses, such as an October 2024 paper that dubiously claimed the U.S. had been in a recession for two years, according to an apparent misinterpretation of data.

Wiz Imp

(6,647 posts)

10. Oh My God. He did a podcast in front of a picture of a Nazi warship

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:43 PM

Aug 12

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts)

17. The NAZI Warshup is disturbing

Reply to Wiz Imp (Reply #10)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 07:10 PM

Aug 12

Prairie Gates

(5,946 posts)

12. What does the EJ stand for?

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:54 PM

Aug 12

mahatmakanejeeves

(66,375 posts)

14. E is for Erwin. NT

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #12)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:42 PM

Aug 12

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts)

13. Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 03:58 PM

Aug 12

mahatmakanejeeves

(66,375 posts)

15. He's the Alina Habba of Stephen Moores. NT

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:50 PM

Aug 12

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,384 posts)

16. Resurfaced podcast reveals that Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee is a Project 2025 author.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Aug 12, 2025, 05:42 PM

Aug 12

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