Trump policy shop filters facts to fit his message

[DonViejo]

‘It’s just another example of how we’re moving to a post-fact era,’ a former official says.

By DAN DIAMOND 07/28/2018 06:44 AM EDT

President Donald Trump’s appointees in the health department have deleted positive references to Obamacare, altered a report that undermined the administration’s positions on refugees and added anti-abortion language to the strategic plan — part of an ideological overhaul of the agency’s research office.

While every administration puts its imprint on the executive branch and promotes ideas that advance its own agenda, this one has ventured several steps further — from scrubbing links to climate change studies from an Environmental Protection Agency website to canceling an Interior Department study on coal mining risks and suppressing reports on water contamination and the dangers of formaldehyde.

Inside the Health and Human Services policy research shop, staffers say the political pressures to tailor facts to fit Trump’s message have been unprecedented.

Several pointed to embarrassments such as PolitiFact grading a lawmaker’s statement, based on the agency’s May 2017 report on Obamacare premium hikes, as “false,” and concluding the study had serious methodological problems.

Another report suggesting that millions more people would get health coverage if Obamacare were rolled back — a finding at odds with nearly every independent analysis — was widely mocked and produced over the objections of career staff at the office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, known as ASPE, say several sources.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/28/trump-facts-policy-shop-administration-research-714353

[world wide wally]

1. An official Dept. of Misinformation

How do we allow ourselves to be "ruled" by this pigman?

[backtoblue]

2. Modern times book burning

If you can't eliminate the words, you publish another to support propaganda.

Corrupt to the very core.