Trump Pick for Jobs Data Chief Was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, White House Says He ‘Was in Town for Meetings’

Michael Luciano Aug 13th, 2025, 9:59 pm

Parler via ProPublica

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a video archived by ProPublica shows.

This week, Trump tapped economist EJ Antoni , a research fellow at the MAGA-fied Heritage Foundation think tank, to lead the agency responsible for publishing vital employment data. Antoni alarmed many in Washington and on Wall Street when he said he would not release new jobs reports until the data is “corrected.” He later walked that back .

According to a report published by NBC News on Wednesday, Antoni “appears in numerous videos posted on social media of th

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