Trump still ignoring facts, but numbers don't lie

August 1, 2017

President Donald Trump has brought many crusades to Washington.

One that has received less attention than his pledges to “drain the swamp” and his jeremiads against illegal immigration, is his administration’s systematic attempts to discredit objective analysis of policy problems.

Opinion by Stuart Shapiro, The Hill, August 1, 2017

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