Donald Trump shut down the government, and now he's using the shutdown of his own making to hide the truth about our economy. Earlier this month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics called back some furloughed employees to work on a key inflation report called the Consumer Price Index, or CPI for short. (00:00–00:08)
CLAIM
Asserts that Donald Trump is using the government shutdown to conceal economic truths.
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