Ayanna Pressley: “Under the Trump administration, release of this data has…”

“My amendment would codify the practice of releasing unemployment data by the Department of Labor. And I do think it's essential that this is a practice that is codified, because Under the Trump administration, release of this data has been inconsistent. If he's just simply unhappy with the numbers, this should be easy for bipartisan approval, since data collection and publication is. Is really critical to our understanding, our national economy.” (00:13–00:20)

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