Bureau of Labor Statistics: President Trump nominates E.J. Antoni as new department head

President Trump has nominated E.J. Antoni, a top economist at the Heritage Foundation, to be the new Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. This comes after Trump fired the previous commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a weaker-than-expected July jobs report, and updated May and June numbers reflected lower numbers than previously reported. Trump said the data in the report were not accurate on social media and suggested McEntarfer for skewing the data for political reasons.