Nevertheless, whether the attribution according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics still carries the same weight with markets, economists and business owners may soon be an open question. President Donald Trump fired the BLS’s nonpartisan commissioner following a recent report of deepening unemployment. Now he’s named to the post EJ Antoni, former chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation and a contributor to its far-right Project 2025 manifesto. Antoni recently proposed ending the BLS’s monthly jobs report.