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DOGE Is Coming for the Bureau of Labor Statistics - Knees Are Already Knockin'
Hot Air ^ | February 06, 2025 | Beege Welborn

Posted on 02/07/2025 6:32:07 AM PST by george76

With everything happening at USAID and the unending flow of jaw-dropping, infuriating revelations, I hadn't really thought about anything else the DOGE team had on their plate as far as crawling up the internal pipes at other departments.

But of course, they have other places to visit and get to work, and golly Nell, if it isn't sending the shivers up the spine of some folks.

Over at the Labor Department, nervous Nellies have already filed lawsuits to keep Elon's Wonder Boys out before they ever step foot in the building.

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A coalition of labor groups filed suit Wednesday seeking to stop DOGE from coming to the Labor Department and gaining access to some of the world's most vital macroeconomic data.

Why it matters: This isn't the first lawsuit against Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but appears to be one of the first filed as a preventative measure — instead of after some major action.

The big picture: The Labor Department houses an enormous amount of confidential data, and includes the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces important economic data, including inflation readings and market-critical employment statistics.

Now, this Axios story tries to insinuate [Beege fix] that it's a matter of employee complaints being stored there from Musk's various companies.

I mean, come on, dudes. You didn't really write that.

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Adults familiar with the way these early forays into the dank underbelly of longtime bureaucratic Washington have a more cynical suspicion than Elon hunting down disgruntled Tesla mechs.

And it has to do with the last sentence in the quote I used above:

The Labor Department houses an enormous amount of confidential data, and includes the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces important economic data, including inflation readings and market-critical employment statistics

What if - what IF - the Wonder Boys get in there and find out the past four years of #Bidenomincs have been a manipulated fantasy?

A badly managed fraud?

A theater piece for the gullible who didn't pay attention to the numerous, massive, downward revisions in data quietly done months after publication.

Who never said a word when data - like 818,000 jobs - just...vanished. Then they kept on truckin' as if nothing had happened.

Job growth in the United States in the year ending in March was far less robust than previously reported by the federal government, giving ammunition to critics who suggest the Federal Reserve may be late to cutting interest rates.

The government reported Wednesday that the economy created 818,000 fewer jobs from April 2023 through March 2024, in the biggest revision to federal jobs data in 15 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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How bad is the economy they’re handing Trump?

The Philly Fed is flagging another 653,000 fake jobs. On top of the 818,000 BLS revised away last year.

Of course left-wing media will blame it all on Trump.

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BUREAU OF LIES & STATISTICS

What IF it's all been lies to protect the Democratic party and the fable that was #Bidenomics?

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What do these hardworking number crunchers have to be scared of otherwise if they were doing their jobs correctly?

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And as much as everyone sounds like parrots squawking 'ELON! ELON! ELON!' it might not do them a lick of good legally, as it is the DOGE team, not Musk, doing the house cleaning. According to this fellow below, the entire DOGE department was set up very carefully to be within all the legal parameters from the beginning to prevent challenges based on its legality.

This is part of his thread explaining what the Trump team did and it is so interesting. They didn't create a new department out of whole cloth. They renamed an existing one that was already authorized within the scope of the president's authority to oversee (an executive branch department) and had all the funding, etc, in situ.

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The Trump team did their homework. I can't say that enough, and we're witnessing the fruits of it every single day - damn near something new every hour.

I expect that the Labor Department is going to be as big as a bag of different worms as USAID once this lawsuit gets tossed or negotiated.

I remember how we all kept getting told things were so wonderful if only our lying eyes would allow us to see it.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bls; doge; dogeteam; fake; fakejobs; jobs; labor; usaid
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1 posted on 02/07/2025 6:32:07 AM PST by george76
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To: george76

This job requires Big Balls.

Bring Back BIG BALLS!


2 posted on 02/07/2025 6:36:18 AM PST by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: george76

labor statistics were in on the scam


3 posted on 02/07/2025 6:39:42 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: george76

You can’t dodge DOGE!


4 posted on 02/07/2025 6:40:54 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady; george76

DOGE balls?


5 posted on 02/07/2025 6:43:54 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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6 posted on 02/07/2025 6:44:26 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Jeff Chandler
DOGE balls?


7 posted on 02/07/2025 6:45:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

BTTT


8 posted on 02/07/2025 6:45:53 AM PST by nopardons
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To: All

FTA——Labor Dept’s nervous Nellies have filed lawsuits
to keep Elon out before ever stepping foot in the building.

A coalition of labor groups filed suit Wednesday seeking to stop DOGE
from gaining access to some of the world’s most vital macroeconomic data:
<><> an enormous amount of confidential data
<><>includes Bureau of Labor Statistics,
<><>important economic data, including inflation readings
<><> and market-critical employment statistics.

Stuff many people would pay big bucks to get.


This isn’t the first lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,
but appears to be one of the first filed as a “preventative measure” — not after some major action.


9 posted on 02/07/2025 6:46:40 AM PST by Liz
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To: george76

Where did Musk get all the people to go to all of these agencies at the same time?

Now I know Musk hired a half-dozen IQ genius dudes, but where have the other helpers come from?


10 posted on 02/07/2025 6:50:42 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: george76

Was Mayorkas running the Labor Dept.?


11 posted on 02/07/2025 6:58:16 AM PST by chopperk (airhig)
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To: george76

Incredible. As if by magic, poof!, everyone sees the emperor has no clothes.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 7:00:50 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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If the courts prevent access just shut off the electricity.

After the employees flee the building lock it down.

It that is not allowed have a jet blow the building to smithereens...

It is our building and agency—we can do with it as we please.


13 posted on 02/07/2025 7:01:38 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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...seeking to stop DOGE from coming to the Labor Department and gaining access to some of the world's most embellished vital macroeconomic data.

Fixed

14 posted on 02/07/2025 7:05:27 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: george76

All of those salaries and money spent by taxpayers for
fake statistics, manipulated data. It amounts to attempts by an agency to prevent information that would be damaging to a political party and disastrous at elections...aka Election Meddling. A clear Hatch Act violation.

Expose it all. Put the truth out for once and let people decide.


15 posted on 02/07/2025 7:26:14 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Elon had posted on X asking for people that wanted to be involved to point to their (software) code they’d created on open source forums.

Everything is digital...and Elon has access to state of the art AI that isn’t even available to the public or government. All his team needs is access, the digital front door. Once they’re in, they’ve AI tools ready to dig through everything.

At least, that’s my understanding. I’m a software architect, I use AI every day. It’s hard to keep up with the new capabilities emerging weekly. There’s a world of change in the technology since Trump was last in office. The D’s thought they would be able to just play the same games without realizing what was now possible. These guys can accomplish in minutes what would have taken 1000’s of auditors years, only to scratch the surface.


16 posted on 02/07/2025 7:26:16 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: george76
I don't think they got what it takes to publish the real inflation numbers though. I mean if the true numbers doubled it overnight...


17 posted on 02/07/2025 7:26:49 AM PST by Karl Spooner (My 30th year of usiing colloidal silver - when needed)
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To: george76
It is patently ridiculous that any of these people can file suit against the president of the United States for looking into the activities of his own government! It's all simply absurd.
18 posted on 02/07/2025 7:32:29 AM PST by workerbee
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To: Jeff Chandler

hahah, you got it!


19 posted on 02/07/2025 7:32:46 AM PST by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: workerbee

I don’t think the public is going to side with the Democrats this time. They see the waste and fraud going on and the D party wants to keep it hidden. This only is going to further erode democrat support.

CD


20 posted on 02/07/2025 7:37:29 AM PST by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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