You can’t run a country, or any organization, without reliable data, and firing the head of a statistics agency because you don’t like the numbers it produces starts a path the United States does not want to go down. At the other end lies a ruined economy and a damaged democracy.
Is there room for improvement in how America produces economic and other statistics? Undeniably yes, in ways that would help bolster public trust in the data and also better protect statisticians from political interference.
