President Trump has named a new commissioner to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, replacing the commissioner Trump fired earlier this month after the BLS released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. Trump’s nominee, E.J. Antoni, is chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025. Antoni has frequently questioned the bureau’s jobs data and methods. After Trump was elected, Antoni posted on X, ”DOGE needs to take a chainsaw to the BLS.”