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Trump nominee to lead labour statistics agency faces wave of criticism

EJ Antoni, who has been nominated to lead the agency that reports jobs data, was a contributor to Project 2025, a far right guide book written by the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation [File: Nam Y Huh/AP]

EJ Antoni, United States President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data, has been embroiled in criticism from economists.

Antoni was chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation and an author of Project 2025, the far-right wish list the think tank created for then-candidate Trump – or the next Republican president.

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