Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency could possibly cause an economic downturn.
Doing so could potentially complicate or distort a fundamental measure of the U.S. economy’s health.
They probably won’t include all the federal employees being kicked to the curb in the unemployment numbers either.
Unfortunately there is a long history in the US of fudging unemployment numbers. Maybe not common, but it happens. This seems more like the Nixon deal (shocker).