The New York Times, Gift Article – “Over the past several months as we’ve explored different measures of how the U.S. is faring, a pattern has emerged: In multiple areas, statistics and reports long compiled by the federal government were delayed, missing or suspended. Ordinarily, much federal data is the domain of a niche network of wonks. When a federal report goes missing or loses key information, think tanks, advocacy organizations and researchers may sound the alarm, but the broader public might never know. But the sprawling federal data apparatus has an even vaster set of uses. Cities, businesses, schools and individuals rely on government reports for all sorts of functions, and if the data collected is faulty — or if it’s not collected at all — it can have far-ranging consequences…”
For an in-depth updated compendium of deleted government data – via LLRX refer to this ongoing series along with links: Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 10. This article is the tenth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights about hundreds of anti-government actions conducted by this administration, tracked and surfaced as they are implemented each month. The greater goal of the series is to identify the consequences of these actions to shatter the health and welfare of our nation – terms broadly used to encompass our nation’s democracy. Critical government services, data collection and analysis, military promotions, censorship of the media, and governance across all agencies have been been disrupted to maintain one objective – fealty to this president – not allegiance the Constitution, the public and the rule of law. Together these articles form an actionable pathfinder to identify the myriad ways the fundamental components of our government – legislative, executive, and judicial, with checks and balances preventing any one branch from gaining too much power, have been disrupted and rendered inoperative.
