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How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public

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The president and his GOP cronies want to tamper with government statistics and use deceptive budget gimmicks to lie about the impact of their massive tax and budget cuts.

Trump administration and Republican lawmakers are preparing to manipulate the federal budget and doctor US government data to mislead the American public about the true cost of their proposed $4 trillion tax cut.

Donald Trump’s proposed $4 trillion tax cut requires GOP lawmakers to drastically curtail essential services relied upon by their constituents and risk fury back home.

The GOP response to this political predicament is to simply invent new budget numbers.

Republicans are preparing an even more audacious gambit this time around: claiming that the new tax cut doesn’t need to pay for itself because, well, it won't cost anything at all.

We’re aiming to raise $ 25,000 during our Spring Fundraising Campaign .

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für Deutschland .

Immigrants don’t steal citizens’ jobs and wages, they grow the economy for all.

VR Score

68

Informative language

64

Neutral language

16

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

61

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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20

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