E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, has raised questions from economists and policymakers across the political spectrum for his views, experience and misunderstanding of economic data.

Trump nominated E.J. Antoni two weeks after firing Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of rigging job report numbers to make him "look bad."

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.