How Trump Picked a Pro-MAGA Heritage Foundation Economist for BLS
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Brian Albrecht, ICLE Chief Economist, was recently quoted in The Washington Post article on President Trump’s nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics and that Antoni made a key political connection in graduate school with someone in Trump’s inner circle who later lobbied for him to head the agency.”
“He does not fundamentally understand how economic data is constructed, and when there is gray area, he always spins things in a particular narrative direction,” said Brian Albrecht, a conservative economist at the International Center for Law and Economics. “They always look bad when Biden is president, and they’re always on the up-and-up now that Trump is president.”