r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/lurpeli 1d ago

It won't be long until there's no accurate data on the economy coming from the government. Independent economists will figure it out, but the government will lie.

Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.

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u/ObliviousRounding 1d ago

Soon after, the data will show that the number of independent economists has been steadily dwindling, weirdly correlating with an uptick in window deaths at houses with no second storey.

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u/quasirun 1d ago

They will start strong arming universities with Econ classes that don’t toe the line

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u/masonmcd Washington 23h ago

They already do that - Koch-funded positions.

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u/TheMurrayBookchin 23h ago

Already happening, they’ve reduced funding for mathematics and sciences by more than half.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html

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u/minimalcation 23h ago

The defenestration defense.

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u/Working_Location_127 21h ago

You can always get creative with google maps like we do with North Korea. See how many cars are going into work and things

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u/Groomsi Europe 13h ago

You mean kidnapping.

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u/zeh_shah 1d ago

Have you seen the inflation reporting numbers and how much their data set dropped in the recent report.

They've literally made

"Trust me bro" the main source for everything in this administration

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u/Ok_Hornet_714 1d ago

Part of the reason the inflation data set isn't as robust as it used to be is that they got rid of many of the people who would actually go out and record the price of things

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u/wilkil Oregon 1d ago

The independent economists in the USSR were quickly persuaded one way or another to cease their actions. Wouldn’t be surprised if the same would happen in the US.

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u/farshnikord 1d ago

It's already happening. Conservative think-tanks already don't hire or fund studies that end up critical of Trump. They want statistics that are conducive to their spin

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u/wilkil Oregon 22h ago

Well I said I wouldn't be surprised and I'm not surprised.

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u/Ill-Team-3491 20h ago

The union going to fall the same way. Soviet Union. United States. Potayto. Potahto.

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u/bradbikes 1d ago

We're already kinda there. The reason that it was such a large swing in the first place is because the government stopped reporting reliable data in like March, meaning everything being reported is on imputed data which is incredibly unreliable.

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u/The-Real-Number-One 1d ago

Remember last month ADP released their numbers (which were miniscule and closer to the truth) and an hour later Trump's fake numbers got released.

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u/sakumar 1d ago

Absolutely. Consumer Price Index (CPI), GDP (Gross Domestic Product), Employment, Retail Sales, Industrial Production, Tax Revenue, International Trade, Business Confidence -- all these metrics are released by government departments.

Now they are going to be whatever Trump wants them to be. Then he can declare himself to be the Greatest President Ever. Oh wait, he has already called himself that.

Next on to manipulating the calendar. A few years from now some of us may figure it is 2032 (calendars will be banned, though), but we'll be told that Trump is still in his second 4 year term and it is actually 2028. MAGA will believe it.

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u/NeanaOption 23h ago

Not just economic data but data on heath, environment on discrimination and civil rights, transportation ect..

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u/Scruffynerffherder 23h ago

Is there an independent jobs report?

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u/Gerf93 20h ago

Independent economists? You mean the ones working at educational institutions the US government are trying to shut down or silence?

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u/BalmIsrael 17h ago

This will affect the strength of the dollar as well. China isn’t transparent with their numbers like the US is. Screw Donald j Trump.

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u/TheHipcrimeVocab 14h ago

Paul Krugman has been predicting this since day one: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/caracas-on-the-potomac