{"id":398744,"date":"2025-11-23T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398744\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:36:15","slug":"trumps-government-is-purging-core-economic-and-social-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398744\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Government Is Purging Core Economic and Social Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the shutdown froze key agencies, the U.S. is now stuck with permanent black holes in the economic record from missing jobs numbers, missing inflation data, and missing surveys that can never be recovered. But this crisis didn\u2019t start with the shutdown. Andrew Egger talks to Catherine Rampell to get her take on the data series that have been deleted, defunded, or censored under Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read Catherine\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/trumps-one-weird-trick-for-eliminating-bad-news-delete-it-data-bls-bea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/trumps-government-is-purging-core\/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/trumps-government-is-purging-core\/comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Leave a comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. <strong>Bulwark+ Takes <\/strong>is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the player to toggle to audio.<\/p>\n<p>Add Bulwark+ Takes feed to your player of choice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/s\/bulwarkpodcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the shutdown froze key agencies, the U.S. is now stuck with permanent black holes in the economic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-398744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115598104119233374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}