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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either) | "We're just ironing out all the details," said Howard Lutnick.


"We're just ironing out all the details," said Howard Lutnick.

But the announcement that really stood out to us, aside from all the normalization of fascist language, was Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s promise to put government statistics on blockchain. Trump falsely claimed that McEntarfer had produced “rigged” data that had been “manipulated for political purposes” when numbers were revised to show less job growth than had been previously reported. The meeting went to a lot of other weird places, especially when Trump was asked about his plans for deploying the National Guard to blue cities around the country.

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