Can Trump’s new BLS pick mess with the data? Experts explain
MSNBC·2025-08-12 20:15
Joining us now, former chief economist of the US Department of Labor, Betsy Stevenson, Financial Times columnist and head of King's College, Cambridge, Jillian Tet, and Phil Bump, who is still with us. Betsy, when EJ Antony says our own person or or you know repeats Steve Bannon wanting our own person in charge of BLS, in charge of the jobs numbers, in charge of this economic data, what does that suggest to you. a bad idea. It suggests a very bad idea.Look, we're not supposed to have our own person. We're s ...