President Donald Trump announced Monday his nomination of E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, to serve ...

Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics called President Donald Trump's firing of its commissioner “depressing” and “CRAZY!!” ...

President Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march toward ...

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer from her role as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after accusing her, without providing evidence, of doctoring jobs data to hurt him and his ...

Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make ...

William Beach, the former Trump-appointed BLS commissioner, expressed skepticism that Antoni or any BLS commissioner would ...

Dr. Erika McEntarfer was fired by President Trump as commissioner of labor statistics at the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Aug. 1, 2025.

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The nomination is already drawing sharp pushback from economists. Jason Furman, a former chief economic adviser in the Obama White House, called Antoni “completely unqualified” and “an extreme ...