President Donald Trump announced Monday his nomination of E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, to serve as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The appointment requires U.

President Donald Trump ’s pick to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who previously proposed scrapping monthly jobs reports, is now backing off that idea, according to a report.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was nominating economist E.J. Antoni as the new Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, 10 days after firing the agency's previous leader following a weak scorecard of the job market,