President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics has made a series of controversial assertions that critics say undermines his desire to have the agency better collect and process economic data.

Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, has suggested pausing the monthly jobs report, raising fears he could alter inflation data that's used to set cost-of-living adjustments for seniors.

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The job cuts align with reduced activity across sectors amid trade uncertainty, experts said. Semiconductors, automotive, machinery, beverage, tobacco and leather manufacturing collectively lost more than 2,

E.J. Antoni, President Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), has suggested ending the monthly jobs reports closely watched by businesses.

E.J. Antoni made a name for himself in MAGA circles as a Bureau of Labor Statistics skeptic and vocal defender of President Donald Trump’s protectionist agenda.

Donald Trump's dismissal two weeks ago Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and nomination of EJ Antoni as her replacement is generating plenty of "inside baseball" chatter among the political class.

Donald Trump’s attempt to replace the chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a MAGA extremist has advocates for women in the workplace worried about how the administration could potentially manipulate data to serve its political agenda.

If a Democratic president tried to so directly politicize an independent agency, Republicans would be screaming about the coming tyranny.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics caused a stir when it surfaced that he suggested the traditionally nonpartisan agency suspend the monthly jobs report — something only the president himself could do.