One of the first solid things President Cruz can do is restore faith in government data. Bring in the heads of every agency and dictate that all data will be real and trustworthy like it used to be.
‘Bring in the heads of every agency and dictate that all data will be real and trustworthy like it used to be.’
Better yet: Fire their asses along with a majority of their underlings. Hire ADP to do the numbers at a much reduced cost.
The political branches of the government began tampering with the numbers all the way back in 1961 under Kennedy. Every president, both Democratic and Republican, since then has lived with cooked books.
Starting in 1992, the Federal Reserve began cooking their books, and that hasn't changed since then. You'd have to have Congress drastically alter the Fed to get honesty out of that quarter.