Trump Names ‘Utterly Unqualified’ Project 2025 Economists as New Labor Stats Chief
Brian Albrecht, ICLE Chief Economist, was recently mentioned in Common Dreams article criticizing President Donald Trump’s nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics and highlighting the past examples of Antoni’s misunderstanding economic data and making partisan claims. Read the full article here.
He said on former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s podcast that the absence of a Trump appointee in the top position at the BLS is “part of the reason why we continue to have all of these different data problems,” but Brian Albrecht, chief economist at the International Center for Law and Economics, highlighted on the social media platform X a number of instances of Antoni “completely not understanding economic statistics, being partisan hack, or both.”
