President Donald Trump is set to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a longtime economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to lead the agency responsible for some of the US government’s most important economic data collection.
The pick has been announced internally at the BLS and the president is expected to announce his selection publicly as soon as Friday evening, said three people familiar with the matter.
The choice of Matsumoto, whose confirmation is subject to Senate approval, draws a line under a period of turmoil at the agency that began in August when Trump sacked then-commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a bleak jobs report he said was “rigged” against him.
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