The White House is looking for a new BLS president with “credibility” and “experience”
WASHINGTON-White House officials in the week began to scramble to find a permanent alternative after President Donald Trump, Commissioner of the Labor Statistics Office, Eric Minarker on Friday, fired the weakest report of July jobs than expected and severe declining reviews at work for two previous months.
Steve Bannon, the first White House adviser in the first period of Trump to affect the Maga Wing for the Republican Party, pushes strongly to EJ Antoni, the chief economist at the Conservative Heritage Foundation. Anthony, the contributor to Project 2025 Policy Rubric, has long been skeptical of BLS data. At Podcast Panon last week, Anthony called for the launch of McNTarfer shortly before Trump’s trigger pulled.
In an interview with NBC News on Monday afternoon, Anthony said that no one at the White House had contacted him about the job. One of the White House assistants said that the Western wing officials “are still running traps” for the candidates for a confirmed position for the Senate on Monday.
The White House did not return a request to comment on whether Anthony was under study.
Trump said on Sunday that he is planning to announce a choice In the next three or four days.
“A person has a credibility and tremendous experience,” said one of the senior White House officials who indicated that Trump will listen to the ideas of Treasury Scott Beesen, Director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Haysit and Stephen Miran, President of the National Economic Council.
The employment of such a person may be a challenge for Trump. In the overthrow of McNTarfer, he claimed that the numbers of jobs are subject to political manipulation – “forged in order to make the Republicans, and me, It looks badHe said – “The ghost raised that the new commissioner will not launch numbers that made Trump look bad.
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Trump’s decision was widely convicted, including William Beach, who served as MCNTarfer in the first state of Trump. He told her the shooting.He puts a dangerous precedent He undermines the statistical mission of the office. ”
In his interview with NBC News, Anthony said the new driving can help increase the agency’s belief and numbers. But he suggested that this would not happen overnight.
“We will need to rebuild confidence, which occurs over time, and this happens with consistency. So again, I am not sure that anyone will get fair vibration regardless of who is appointed in this role,” he said. “Everyone who is in this role will need to make the necessary changes to make the numbers more accurate, and after the passage of time, we will be faithful to the data. This is what is about it in the end. It is related to believing in data.”
During the weekend until Monday, Trump’s allies moved away from the narration that changed Minarker, a political appointment of President Joe Biden, numbers suitable for a party agenda and a framing of the responsibility of the previous data reviews.
BLS traditionally updated the monthly job numbers that mainly depend on the recipients that come late. Together, reviews for the month of May and June amounted to more than 250,000 jobs less than what was originally reported.
“In order for Trump to say that she is reforming the numbers, etc., I think there is no evidence for that. This may be true, but there is no real evidence for that,” said Stephen Moore, a former Trump campaign adviser in economic issues. “The main thing is, Trump chooses, if they come out through these wild estimates that are completely outside the base, people will lose their confidence in the numbers, but I think this really happens.”
The senior White House official said it is difficult for the government and the private sector to make decisions if the current recruitment numbers do not reflect the reality – and commented this problem on McNTarfer and BLS as the reluctance of modernization.
The official said: “The goal is to provide data that can be for markets, policymakers, to rely on, and people know how to be produced,” the official said. “I think what we actually know is that there is no transparency in how to produce these numbers and why it is very bad and you know that there was also resistance, from BLS to truly exploring it.”
BLS publishes the methods he uses to calculate recruitment data, including complex formulas, On its websiteAnd the standards have not changed since Trump’s election.
Edwards said: “It is purely transparent,” Edwards said. “You can go and download each single poll sent. … the idea that the numbers are not transparent, and bald; the idea that the numbers can be treated by one Commissioner, a link with links; the idea that there is a ability to manipulate, a bumped lie.”