New newsletter: Trump’s attacks on facts are broader than one firing at the BLS. The WH’s war on numbers they don’t like now touches everything from vaccines to climate change to education data to economic growth. In his first seven months, the admin has now: - Dismissed the scientists in charge of vaccine evaluations at the CDC, bc RFK is skeptical of vaccines - Dismissed experts who put together the national climate assessment that insurance companies rely on to gauge risk - Fired the head of the BLS, bc Trump doesn’t want to see any statistical representation of the fact that his tariff and immigration policies are weakening the economy

The Trump administration's war on inconvenient truths—across economic, climate, and health data—is going make us dumber, poorer, and less prepared for crisis