Good morning. It's Thursday, August 14th.
I'm Shmeeta Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
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But first,
economists across the ideological spectrum are raising concerns that President Trump's new nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics will politicize what's supposed to be a nonpartisan government agency.
Remember, Trump fired the former commissioner Erica McIntarfer earlier this month,
who had spent two decades in federal statistics,
because he didn't like the department's latest job report.
It showed hiring weakened in July,
and the agency revised previously released numbers from May and June.
They were much lower than the agency originally thought.
Revisions to employment numbers are quite normal, as the bureau aims to balance speed and accuracy.
Regular watchers of these reports know to expect some adjustments.
But Trump claimed without evidence that McIntarfer rigged the numbers to hurt him politically.
To replace her, he chose E.J.
Antony, the chief economist of the Conservative Heritage Foundation.
And experts are concerned that his personal politics could shape how he approaches this work.