EJ Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is no longer considering suspending the monthly jobs report — one of the most crucial and historic measurements of US economic activity — after proposing the unprecedented action during an interview that published Tuesday.

E.J. Antoni, whom President Donald Trump plans to nominate as the next head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has proposed pausing publication of the monthly payroll report until the data can be made more reliable.

Donald Trump continued to rage at media figures overnight, this time former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Trump wrote on Truth Social late Sunday, “Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been predicting Doom and Gloom ever since my great election success in 2016. In other words, he has been wrong for YEARS, …