Trump could tamper with government data to make his administration look better, ex-official warns

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to revive the "Schedule F" employment category, which would expose thousands of federal employees to easy dismissal.

Former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Erica L. Groshen said that such a proposal would have devastating effects on the government's statistics infrastructure and erode public trust.

The inflation rate, along with job creation numbers, census data and other statistics produced by federal civil servants, is a key source of information for the public.

Critics have warned that if the Trump White House uses Schedule F to clear out the federal bureaucracy, the government would lose institutional expertise that, along with trust, would be extremely difficult to replace.

For some advisors with Trump 's ear, that's exactly the point.

Groshen: "There's now the risk of a world where you have more industrial unrest between workers and employers, more protracted and continual negotiations".