Ari Melber reports on "The Beat" how President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, was ...

President Trump announced E.J. Antoni as his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday, after he fired the ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated economist E.J. Antoni as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency ...

Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head ...

Trump nominated E.J. Antoni two weeks after firing Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of rigging job report numbers to make him ...

Antoni had the support of conservatives like former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said on X that McEntarfer was no longer leading the bureau and that William Wiatrowski, the deputy commissioner, would serve as the acting director.

The president’s move throws the quality of America’s statistical apparatus into question.

President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is unlikely to benefit the ...

Trump fired the previous U.S. commissioner of Labor Statistics after the department reported the U.S. added a disappointing 73,000 jobs in July.