{"id":13898,"date":"2025-10-01T02:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pulls-nomination-of-ej-antoni-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:20:17","slug":"trump-pulls-nomination-of-ej-antoni-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pulls-nomination-of-ej-antoni-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pulls nomination of EJ Antoni to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Tuesday withdrew the nomination of E.J. Antoni to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after ousting the previous head of the agency over criticism of jobs data. Trump had announced in August that he would nominate Antoni, a top economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5530292-ej-antoni-nomination-withdrawal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Tuesday withdrew the nomination of E.J. Antoni to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after ousting the previous head of the agency over criticism of jobs data. Trump had announced in August that he would nominate Antoni, a top economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}