• How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics, https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data
• Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/trump-officials-farm-product-trade-deficit-forecast-00382549?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f107-dd93-ad7f-f90770910001. The report is an ERS done joining with the Foreign Ag Service but appears on the ERS publication schedule and is on the ERS website. 

Adding another from Marketplace yesterday:

 https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/06/03/what-if-government-data-becomes-untrustworthy#unreliable-government-data-ends-up-being-a-real-drag-on-the-economy-economist-says

• How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics, https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data
• Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/trump-officials-farm-product-trade-deficit-forecast-00382549?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f107-dd93-ad7f-f90770910001. The report is an ERS done joining with the Foreign Ag Service but appears on the ERS publication schedule and is on the ERS website. 

Breaking news this afternoon: https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-trump-tariffs-bls-labor-a70c57bfd04a4deb9d7a3bb08f99aba9. Also covered by WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-inflation-data-accuracy-8bd2a8ae?st=cyD3pk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink) and Bloomberg (https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-trump-tariffs-bls-labor-a70c57bfd04a4deb9d7a3bb08f99aba9.)

From WSJ: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the office that publishes the inflation rate, told outside economists this week that a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices. In last month's inflation report, which examined prices in April, government statisticians had to use a less precise method for guessing price changes more extensively than they did in the past."

Adding another from Marketplace yesterday:

 https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/06/03/what-if-government-data-becomes-untrustworthy#unreliable-government-data-ends-up-being-a-real-drag-on-the-economy-economist-says

• How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics, https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data
• Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/trump-officials-farm-product-trade-deficit-forecast-00382549?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f107-dd93-ad7f-f90770910001. The report is an ERS done joining with the Foreign Ag Service but appears on the ERS publication schedule and is on the ERS website.