Economists worry that EJ Antoni’s nomination is largely political in nature for a historically non-partisan role.
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EJ Antoni, United States President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data, has been embroiled in criticism from economists.
Antoni was chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation and an author of Project 2025, the far-right wish list the think tank created for then-candidate Trump – or the next Republican president.
His selection threatens to bring a new level of politicisation to a producer of measurements of the nation’s economic health that has, for decades, been widely regarded as a nonpartisan and reliable agency.
