White House says it will announce new BLS nominee soon

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will soon announce another nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the White House said on Wednesday, one day after withdrawing the nomination of conservative economist E.J. Antoni.

"E.J. Antoni remains a great ally of the president and our team. It became clear, unfortunately, that he was not going to have the votes, and so we will be announcing a replacement nominee very soon," White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a briefing.