Unqualified nominee must be defeated

Please call your U.S. senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to oppose the confirmation of E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

Even conservative economists have called him untrustworthy and unqualified. “He has used all the tricks in the book and shown time and again that he is not a credible source of information,” Dave Hebert, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, a conservative think tank, told The Guardian. “Worse, he has repeatedly shown that he fundamentally misunderstands what some of the data the BLS puts out actually means.”

This confirmation vote is critically important, as The New York Times writes:

“Economists warn that if investors lose confidence in the independence of the Fed, or in the reli

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