内容摘要：Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington to handle the investigation.

Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington to handle the investigation.

President Donald Trump froze federal hiring on hisin April until late July, suggesting future inflation reports will also involve less data collection. The White House could continue to extend the freeze indefinitely.

Sharif and other economists said the BLS hasn’t released enough information to judge how big an impact the cutbacks are having on the inflation figures. But it could make them less slighly less accurate.“When you have a reduced sample size, it introduces more error into the estimate,” Sharif said. “It creates the potential for the indexes to be more volatile and potentially less accurate.”Earlier this year, the Trump administration

several advisory committees that worked with BLS and other statistical agencies on fine-tuning their data-gathering.Alan Detmeister, an economist at UBS, an investment bank, said the cutbacks likely had little impact on April’s inflation figures. But “if these types of cuts continue, they will degrade the reliability and efficacy of these statistical agencies,” he said.

The BLS compiles the monthly inflation reports by sending hundreds of workers into retail stores across the country to gather thousands of prices. About 60% of the prices used in the inflation data are compiled in person, while about 35% are gathered online and 5% over the phone.

Erica Groshen, a former commissioner of BLS, said that the agency has lost about 15% of its personnel since the beginning of the year, a sharp decline that likely reflects falling morale stemming from the attacks on government workers by Elon Musk’s DOGE.Websites mentioning Sicuens say it specializes in sourcing bicycle parts from China.

Shen is also the head of the Kuma Academy, an organization that encourages Taiwanese people toThe DPP swiftly dismissed China’s accusations.

“This is clearly a case of the Chinese Communist Party fabricating a pretext to stir up trouble. When it comes to infiltration, cyberattacks, cognitive warfare and gray-zone threats, the CCP is by far the most serious perpetrator,” said Michael Chen, the DPP’s acting director of International Affairs. Gray-zone warfare refers to offensive tactics short of open combat.“What we are seeing now is a textbook example of the bully crying foul,” Chen said.