Trump Attack on Bureaucracy Raises Concerns Over ‘Gold Standard’ Economic Data
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After President Donald Trump has taken steps to access and even remove data at federal agencies, statisticians are sounding the alarm that economic numbers need to be protected.
A group of unions have sued to block Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency from accessing computers at the Labor Department, which oversees the Bureau of Labor Statistics. An advocacy group is calling on Congress to ensure that public information won’t be removed from government websites after certain pages went dark in the past week.