Trump just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the jobs report didn’t flatter him…
and now he’s hand-picking a Heritage Foundation loyalist who’s been trashing the agency for years to take over. This isn’t about “honest numbers,” it’s about rigging the scoreboard before the next game.
If you thought government stats were supposed to be nonpartisan, buckle up. we’re about to watch the BLS turned into a propaganda machine.
Trump's naming of conservative economist E.J. Antoni comes after he fired the previous BLS commissioner, claiming without evidence that the July jobs report was "rigged."
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