Heritage Foundation economist E. J. Antoni , chosen Monday by President Donald Trump to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics , recently floated the idea of the BLS suspending its traditional monthly jobs reports .

Antoni, in an interview Aug. 4 with Fox News Digital , questioned the accuracy of those monthly reports, which are key economic indicators that Wall Street investors and economists rely on to assess the health of the U.S. labor market.

"How on earth are businesses supposed to plan — or how is the Fed supposed to conduct monetary policy — when they don't know how many jobs are being added or lost in our economy?" Antoni said in that interview.

"It's a serious problem that needs to be fixed immediately," Antoni said at the time.

"Until it is corrected, the BLS should

See Full Page