Trump’s Government Is Purging Core Economic and Social Data

And this is economics. The administration is doing the same in health and science, right?

I was an institutional researcher for 40 years and question how data collection just ceased during the shutdown. Hard to believe those ongoing data collection systems just blew up. Compilation & Analysis would have been suspended with RIFs but should be possible to do belatedly—unless they very deliberately shut those processes down in an attempt to erase evidence of damage he’s done. I imagine that’s the case.

The Republicans and the Heritage Foundation are going to do as much damage as possible until we take back the Senate and the house so we can start investigating them and frighten them away from doing any more damage

Yup, it has begun. No numbers = no bad numbers.

This is on brand for Trump. One of his first solutions for the covid crisis was for us to just stop counting the people who contracted covid. By his logic, if you didn't have numbers, there wasn't a crisis. So then, it would just go away.

Wouldn't trust Trump to go down the road and get me a pint of milk

What a great addition to the Bulwark Catherine turns out to be!

Retired Federal Government economist here. This is superb coverage and explanation of the importance of the data produced by the Federal Government. I'm horrified by what this Administration is doing. Thank you for a factual and interesting conversation.

So much winning when you shred all the bad news.

Cooking the books.