Trump targets federal data agencies — SkimNews
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- The Trump administration is reshaping how federal agencies collect and publicize data, pulling the traditionally apolitical federal data community into its broader push to control every level of government.
- Across the federal government, agencies are changing information collection and dissemination practices, with politics and ideology increasingly driving those changes, according to the source.
Why it matters: Federal data underpins business decisions, academic research, and public policy across the economy — if political and ideological considerations increasingly drive how that data is collected and released, the integrity of the baseline information that everyone from investors to epidemiologists relies on is at stake.
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