Trump, Musk, and their teenaged hatchet men might just be able to squelch the bad news about rising unemployment by crippling the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Trump-Musk may be able to squelch bad news about rising unemployment by crippling, through layoffs, the agency of government that measures unemployment: the Bureau of Labor Statistics .

The AFL-CIO and a host of major unions have sought an injunction against DOGE for its attempt to seize the private data on millions of Americans collected and safeguarded by the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services , and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .