WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's nominee to be the new U.S. commissioner of Labor Statistics recently suggested the agency stop issuing monthly jobs reports until the methodology used to compute the figures is changed.

E.J. Antoni, a Heritage Foundation economist who Trump tapped on Aug. 11 to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner he fired, proposed the idea during an Aug. 4 interview to Fox News Digital . He questioned the agency's methodology and economic assumptions because of recent jobs revisions, calling it a "serious problem that needs to be fixed immediately."

"Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data," Antoni said. "Major decision-makers from

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