… whether it be interest rates proposed by Jay Powell at the Fed who need to remain independent, or whether it's accurate information coming out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The trust that the world has in the American economy is one of the main reasons why we are the world's leading economy. We cannot retreat one bit. And the firing of the statistician in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a huge step in the wrong direction in terms of confidence in the information that the American people are receiving. (03:26–03:33)
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Asserts that global trust in U.S. economic data is crucial to its economic leadership.
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