Trump’s BLS Pick Suggested Suspending Monthly Jobs Report

EJ Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has suggested suspending the agency’s monthly jobs reports and publishing only quarterly numbers until issues with data collection are corrected.

In an interview with Fox News Digital on Aug. 4, before Trump nominated him for the position, Antoni said businesses can’t plan and the Federal Reserve can’t conduct monetary policy when the monthly report is unreliable and frequently overstated and thus misleading.