EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.

The easiest way to get ahead in Washington is to be a hack and pledge total loyalty to Trump, which is how you end up with dumb people like Oren Cass or EJ Antoni elevated to positions of extreme power