Trump taps conservative economist to lead statistics agency

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President Trump plans to name conservative economist E.J. Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Jim Watson | AFP)President Trump plans to nominate conservative economist E.J. Trump fired the previous commissioner of labor statistics, Erika McEntarfer, less than two weeks ago, after the bureau reported weaker-than-expected job gains for May, June and July. The choice of a partisan economist to oversee the bureau is likely to raise fresh questions about the reliability of market-moving government data.