(The Hill) - President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggested the agency should stop issuing monthly jobs reports, claiming that the data the agency uses to calculate them is not reliable.

E.J. Antoni, whom Trump nominated Monday to lead BLS, said the agency should "suspend issuing the monthly jobs reports, but keep publishing more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data."

"Major decision-makers from Wall Street to D.C. rely on these numbers, and a lack of confidence in the data has far-reaching consequences," the nominee told Fox Business.

Trump nominated Antoni, the chief economist at the far-right Heritage Foundation think tank, to lead BLS after the president fired the agency's previous chief, Erika McEntarfer, after the release of the dismal Jul

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