Wasn’t she only in that job for a year? Maybe she was doing a bad job.

The current head of the BLS seems well qualified. Here are some select quotes from a NYT article [1]:

  “Erica Groshen, who was commissioner during the Obama administration, also praised the selection. “He’s a B.L.S.-er, he’s a data nerd,” she said.”

  “The firing, and Mr. Antoni’s subsequent nomination, raised concerns that Mr. Trump would seek to interfere in the agency’s operations and perhaps try to skew its estimates to his political advantage. “
  
  “There is no evidence that has happened so far. The agency has been run since August by William Wiatrowski, its longtime deputy commissioner, who also led the bureau on an interim basis under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Economists continue to view the numbers the agency produces as reliable.”

Now these comments were written back in January of this year.

Can you cite any specific examples of wrongdoing? Or inaccurate numbers or figures outside of normal revisions?

When I see bad numbers from the BLS I say yes that’s probably true. When I see good numbers from the BLS I say yes that’s probably true.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/trump-bureau-of-...