Murdoch Paper (WSJ) Rips Into Trump for Making Project 2025 Architect His Stats Boss
Source: The Daily Beast
Murdoch Paper Rips Into Trump for Making Project 2025 Architect His Stats Boss
Will Neal
Wed, August 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM EDT
2 min read
A newspaper owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has blasted Donald Trump’s choice of a new director at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he viciously fired the last one.
E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation and a chief architect of its controversial Project 2025 blueprint for the second MAGA administration, “will have to take off his MAGA hat if he wants to ensure that the public and markets can trust BLS data,” the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote in an editorial.
Antoni’s appointment, backed by a number of MAGA hardliners, including Steve Bannon, comes after Trump abruptly canned former agency commissioner Erika McEntarfer.
His decision followed the BLS reporting U.S. companies had generated significantly fewer jobs in July than forecast by the White House, and revising its May-June stats down by more than a quarter of a million. The president claimed McEntarfer had “RIGGED” those numbers “in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”
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