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Trump destroys our source of information about jobs by Robert Reich

He hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn't want the public to know what's really happening.

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
August 7, 2025
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  • Robert Reich
  • August 7, 2025
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I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal responsibilities was to guard the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Otherwise, this crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy would be compromised. If politicized, it would no longer be trusted as a source of information.

So what does Trump do? With one fell swoop he destroyed the BLS.

Trump didn’t like the fact that the BLS revised downward its jobs reports for April and May. Revisions in monthly jobs report are nothing new. They’re made when the Bureau gets more or better information over time.

Yet with no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Then he ordered her fired and replaced with someone else — presumably someone whose data Trump will approve of.

How can anyone in the future trust the data that emerges from the Bureau of Labor Statistics when the person in charge of the agency has to come up with data to Trump’s liking in order to stay in the job? Answer: They cannot. Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.

When Trump doesn’t like the message he shoots the messenger and replaces the messenger with someone who will come up with messages he approves of.

So we’re left without credible sources of information about what is really occurring.

Trump is in the process of trying to do the same thing with the Federal Reserve — demanding that Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair, cut interest rates. Trump is even threatening Powell with a Trumped-up expose of Powell’s supposed extravagance in refurbishing the Fed as a means of forcing Powell to do his bidding or resign.

What happens to the Fed’s credibility if Powell give in to Trump? It loses it. In the future, we wouldn’t have confidence that the Fed is fighting inflation, as it should. And without that confidence, longer-term interest rates will spike because investors will assume that there’s no inflation cop on the beat and therefore will demand a higher risk premium.

Trump hates facts that he disagrees with. That’s why he’s dismembering the Environmental Protection Agency, which has repeatedly shown that climate change isn’t a “hoax,” as Trump claims, but more like a national emergency. It’s why Trump is attacking American universities, whose scientists are developing wind and solar energy, and whose historians have revealed America’s tragic history of racism and genocide of indigenous people. He is killing off the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, which are showing the sources of sickness and disease and how we can guard against them.

This is a man and a regime that doesn’t want the public to know the truth. He is turning America into George Orwell’s dystopian 1984.

This is what fascism looks like, friends.

We must fight this with everything we have.

Trump destruye nuestra fuente de información sobre empleos. Esto es sumamente irresponsable.

Odia los hechos. Rechaza la verdad. No quiere que el público sepa lo que realmente está sucediendo.

Pasé gran parte de la década de 1990 como Secretario de Trabajo. Una unidad del Departamento de Trabajo es la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales.

Mis predecesores, así como la Casa Blanca y todos los economistas y estadísticos laborales con los que trabajé, me indicaron que una de mis responsabilidades fundamentales era proteger la independencia de la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales. De lo contrario, esta joya de la corona del conocimiento sobre el empleo y la economía se vería comprometida. Si se politizaba, dejaría de ser confiable como fuente de información.

Entonces, ¿qué hace Trump? De un plumazo, destruyó la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales (BLS).

A Trump no le gustó que la BLS revisara a la baja sus informes de empleo de abril y mayo. Las revisiones en los informes mensuales de empleo no son nada nuevo. Se realizan cuando la Oficina obtiene más o mejor información con el tiempo.

Sin embargo, sin fundamento alguno, Trump acusó a Erika McEntarfer, la Comisionada de Estadísticas Laborales, de manipular los datos para “hacer quedar mal a los republicanos y a mí”. Luego ordenó su despido y su reemplazo por otra persona, presumiblemente alguien cuyos datos Trump aprobaría.

¿Cómo puede alguien confiar en el futuro en los datos que surgen de la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales cuando la persona a cargo de la agencia tiene que presentar datos que le gusten a Trump para permanecer en el cargo? Respuesta: No pueden. Trump ha destruido la credibilidad de esta fuente de información tan importante.

Cuando a Trump no le gusta el mensaje, elimina al mensajero y lo reemplaza por alguien que presente mensajes que él apruebe.

Así que nos quedamos sin fuentes de información creíbles sobre lo que realmente está sucediendo.

Trump está intentando hacer lo mismo con la Reserva Federal: exigir que Jerome Powell, presidente de la Fed, reduzca las tasas de interés. Trump incluso amenaza a Powell con una denuncia falsa de la supuesta extravagancia de Powell al reformar la Fed como una forma de obligarlo a obedecer sus órdenes o a renunciar.

¿Qué pasa con la credibilidad de la Reserva Federal si Powell cede ante Trump? La pierde. En el futuro, no confiaríamos en que la Reserva Federal esté combatiendo la inflación como debería. Y sin esa confianza, las tasas de interés a largo plazo se dispararán porque los inversores asumirán que no hay un regulador de la inflación al acecho y, por lo tanto, exigirán una prima de riesgo más alta.

Trump odia los hechos con los que no está de acuerdo. Por eso está desmantelando la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), que ha demostrado repetidamente que el cambio climático no es un “engaño”, como afirma Trump, sino más bien una emergencia nacional. Por eso Trump ataca a las universidades estadounidenses, cuyos científicos están desarrollando energía eólica y solar, y cuyos historiadores han revelado la trágica historia de racismo y genocidio de los pueblos indígenas en Estados Unidos. Está destruyendo los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) y los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH), que muestran las causas de las enfermedades y cómo podemos protegernos de ellas.

Este es un hombre y un régimen que no quiere que el público sepa la verdad. Está convirtiendo a Estados Unidos en el distópico 1984 de George Orwell.

Así es el fascismo, amigos.

Debemos combatirlo con todas nuestras fuerzas.

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