President Donald Trump has picked E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the government agency that tracks jobs and prices, according to CNN reporting on this significant appointment. Antoni works as an economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and has been a strong critic of how the bureau collects its data. Trump fired the previous head, Erika McEntarfer, just ten days earlier, after she released disappointing job numbers for July.

The president claimed without proof that McEntarfer had changed the data to hurt him politically. Antoni had appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast in August and called McEntarfer incompetent when discussing the weak jobs report. CNN's coverage shows that Antoni even seemed to agree with Bannon that Trump should p

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