>Antoni is a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, and he holds a doctorate in economics from Northern Illinois University. He's defended Mr. Trump's economic policy moves in the past, including the president's tariff strategy. He has also criticized the BLS for low response rates and questioned the agency's methodology, calling its health insurance figures "phoney baloney" last year and at one point joking that "the 'L' is silent" in BLS' name.
>"DOGE needs to take a chainsaw to the BLS...," he wrote in a November post on X.
>"There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data—that is the task for the next BLS commissioner, and only consistent delivery of accurate data in a timely manner will rebuild the trust that has been lost over the last several years," he wrote shortly after Mr. Trump fired the former BLS chief.
Please read through Erika McEntarfer's Wikipedia page and then EJ Antoni's and decide, for yourself, who may be better suited for the role:
As someone who has made a career out of working in analytics, data engineering, and data science, I can tell you that I'm very much a skeptic, but I value, highly, honesty, experience, rigor, and business acumen. Only one of these two has those.
CoastalCoder•5mo ago
Sorry if I'm something, but after reading those two Wikipedia pages I'm still not sure which person you're recommending.
RealityVoid•5mo ago
The current US president is an incoherent, inconsistent mess. So it's perfectly understandable when one ignores what he says.
DoctorOW•5mo ago
It's comments like this that perversely make me okay with media bias. If the government said 2+2=5, I wouldn't be inclined to believe it, nor any "compromise" about 2+2 being up for debate. The news shouldn't be loyal to the president, it should be factually accurate.
treetalker•5mo ago
Bold to implicitly assume that faking isn't already going on.
bediger4000•5mo ago
Weird that more or less official pronunciations of the US President get waved off as ignorable. But it does reveal CNN's biases.
garciasn•5mo ago
>Antoni is a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, and he holds a doctorate in economics from Northern Illinois University. He's defended Mr. Trump's economic policy moves in the past, including the president's tariff strategy. He has also criticized the BLS for low response rates and questioned the agency's methodology, calling its health insurance figures "phoney baloney" last year and at one point joking that "the 'L' is silent" in BLS' name.
>"DOGE needs to take a chainsaw to the BLS...," he wrote in a November post on X.
>"There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data—that is the task for the next BLS commissioner, and only consistent delivery of accurate data in a timely manner will rebuild the trust that has been lost over the last several years," he wrote shortly after Mr. Trump fired the former BLS chief.
Please read through Erika McEntarfer's Wikipedia page and then EJ Antoni's and decide, for yourself, who may be better suited for the role:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_McEntarfer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.J._Antoni
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As someone who has made a career out of working in analytics, data engineering, and data science, I can tell you that I'm very much a skeptic, but I value, highly, honesty, experience, rigor, and business acumen. Only one of these two has those.
CoastalCoder•5mo ago
RealityVoid•5mo ago
DoctorOW•5mo ago