“The billionaire agenda,
the corruption we’re seeing,
is changing the way government is functioning.
It’s leading to real-time and impactful ramifications for regular people,”
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen.
“The gutting of Medicaid,
all the firings we’ve seen of federal workers,
the ravaging of families through Ice raids.
It’s just all coming together to cause people to stand up and say,
‘we are the people of this c…
On the right, there is an “economic exploitation” faction whose goal is to get as close to slave labor as they can, and a racist faction whose goal is to be as cruel as possible to immigrants.
Those factions overlap, they align, some people gravitate to both — but they are not identical. They align •only• if the cruelty creates terrible labor conditions — not if the cruelty removes the labor entirely.
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Paul Schroeder, executive director of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, described the president’s allegation as “very damaging and outrageous”, adding: “Not only does it undermine the integrity of federal economic statistics but it also politicizes data which need to remain independent and trustworthy. This action is a grave error by the administration and one that will have ramifications for years to come.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-fires-erika-mcentarfer-labor-statistics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other