Antoni, a federal budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, is a longtime critic of the BLS. He has called its statistics “phoney baloney” and last year urged the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) “to take a chainsaw to the BLS”.<\/p>\n
In the Fox interview, he said the jobs report, which includes the country’s unemployment rate, the number of jobs created over the last month, and other data, was unreliable. <\/p>\n
“It’s a serious problem that needs to be fixed immediately,” Antoni said in the Fox interview, which was conducted before Trump named him to lead the BLS. <\/p>\n
“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 added. <\/p>\n
Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican chairman of the Senate committee that will consider his nomination, had criticised McEntarfer after a major revision to employment data last year and said that the reports had become less accurate under her leadership.<\/p>\n
He said in a statement he would meet with Antoni and that “we need a BLS Commissioner committed to producing accurate, unbiased economic information to the American people”.<\/p>\n
But in a blistering post on X afer the Fox interview was published, a top Democrat on the committee, Patty Murray, wrote: “Any Senator who votes to confirm this partisan hack is voting to shred the integrity of our nation’s best economic and jobs data, which underpin our entire economy.”<\/p>\n
She then said that she believed BLS data would become “make-believe” under Antoni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoni, a federal budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, is a longtime critic of the BLS. He has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115018495761140746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}