President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggested the agency should stop issuing monthly jobs reports, claiming that the data the agency uses to calculate them is not reliable.

E.J. Antoni, whom Trump nominated Monday to lead BLS, said the agency should "suspend issuing the monthly jobs reports, but keep publishing more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data."

"Major decisionmakers from Wall Street to D.C. rely on these numbers, and a lack of confidence in the data has far-reaching consequences," the nominee told Fox Business.

Trump nominated Antoni, the chief economist at the far-right

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