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President Donald Trump announced Monday his nomination of E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, to serve as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The appointment requires U.S. Senate confirmation [1].

Antoni would replace Erika McEntarfer, whom Trump fired Aug. 1 following a disappointing July jobs report that showed hiring had stalled and included substantial downward revisions to previous months’ employment figures. Trump accused McEntarfer, an appointee of President Joe Biden, of manipulating data for “political purposes,” though he provided no evidence for these c

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