White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the government will continue to issue the monthly jobs report, which includes the nation's unemployment rate, despite comments by an administration's nominee that suggested suspending it.
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"I believe that is the plan and that's the hope," Leavitt said.
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On Aug. 4., E.J. Antoni, a conservative economist at the Heritage Foundation, said on Fox News Digital that the agency should pause the issuance of the reports while it works to improve its data collection. Antoni a week later was nominated by Trump to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that compiles the jobs data as well as monthly inflation report.
The jobs report is closely watched by Wall Street and many businesses around the country, and suspending it would be unprecedented.
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Trump slammed the last report Aug. 1 after it showed hiring weakened in July and was much lower in May and June than originally reported, then fired the BLS commissioner, Erika McEntarfer.