The White House hopes that the American monthly job report will continue despite the claim by the work statistics candidate

The selection of Donald Trump, as the following commissioner of the US Office of the US Office (BLS), threatens to bring a new level of politicization to decades for decades of non -partisan agency reports on economic health in the country, according to Democrats and some economists.

While many former Ministry of Labor officials say that it is unlikely that the Ministry of Labor Statistics Office of the Ministry, the EJ Antoni will be able to distort or change economic data, can change the way it is presented.

Anthony was nominated by Trump after BLS released a report on jobs on August 1 that showed that the employment was weaker in July and was much less in May and June than the agency previously stated. Although the rest of the report included positive data points for the White House Trump, the president, without evidence, confirmed that the data was “forged” for political reasons and was called the BLS chair at the time, Erika Mcentarfer, who was placed in this position with the support of the Senate between the two parties.

The launch of McNTarfer has been criticized even by some members of the Republican Congress, including Senator Centum Lomis of Wyoming and Tom Teleles of North Carolina.

Antoni was an audio critic of government function data in repeated appearance on podcasts and cable TV. He publicly said that the Ministry of Labor must stop publishing monthly job reports in order to improve its data collection operations, and rely on quarterly data based on actual recruitment files with government unemployment offices.

The common reviews, which Wall Street understands

Monthly recruitment reports are likely to be closest to the economic data monitored in Wall Street, and can often cause stock prices.

When asked to surround the White House on Tuesday about whether the job report would continue to release him, press secretary Caroline Levit said that the administration hoped to be so.

“I think this is the plan and this is hope,” Levitte said.

Levitt also defended Anthony’s nomination, describing him as an “economic expert” who witnessed in front of Congress, adding that “the president trusts him to lead this important section.”

However, Anthony has claimed a mistake in the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency that the economy was in a recession since 2022; The entire Federal Reserve was called to be dismissed for not obtaining a profit for the treasury for securities; She published a plan on social media that created time tables to propose inflation under Biden’s leadership to 15 percent.

His argument that the United States was in a stable stagnation on a largely exaggerated scale for enlargement of housing, based on the prices of newly purchased homes, to make the country’s gross domestic product look smaller than it was.

“This is in fact, perhaps the worst Anthony content yet,” said Alan Cole of the right -wing tax institution on social media on Tuesday.

Many economists share, to some extent, Anthony’s concerns that government job data have defects and a threat to trends such as low response rates in their polls. This decrease has made function numbers more volatile, although not necessarily less accurate over time.

“The stock market is clearly moving based on these job numbers, and therefore people who suffer from the skin in the game believe that they tell them something about the future of their investments,” said Brian Albricht, chief economist at the International Center for Law and Economics. “Can it be improved?” certainly. “

Catherine Abraham, an economist at the University of Maryland, who was the BLS Commissioner during the era of President Bill Clinton, said that updating the jobs report methods would require at least some initial investment.

She said that the government can use more modern data sources, such as the numbers of salary lists, and fill gaps with surveys.

UBS Economic Economy estimates that BLS now collects about 18 percent of price quotes for inflation from what they were earlier this year. He believes that the report will lead to more volatile results, although its average over time, is still reliable.

Previous doubts can be changed

William Beach, who was appointed as a BLS commissioner by Trump in his first term and also served during the Biden era, said he was confident that BLS actions are strong enough to prevent political intervention. He said that when he held the position of commissioner, he did not see the characters himself until two days before the publication.

“The commissioner does not affect the numbers,” Beach said. “They do not collect data. They don’t massage data.”

Regarding the possibilities of falsifying the numbers, Beach said: “I will not put it in full scratch, but I put it close to scratch.”

Before launching his political career, Trump often accused Barack Obama’s administration of developing statistics to produce more favorable economic reports, without providing evidence. As a president, Trump often threatened the President of the Federal Reserve, who was nominated in his first term, Jerome Powell.

Anthony requires confirmation of the Senate.

Senator Patty Murray, a great democratic, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican President of the Health, Education and pensions of the Senate, called for a confirmation session for Anthony as soon as possible.

It took about six months after McNTarfer nominated in July 2023 to be approved. It was confirmed in a 86-8 vote, which means that she received support from dozens of Republicans.