In an Opinion piece for MSNBC, Max Stier points out, “The administration’s initial attempt to use the #Shutdown to end reporting on the #RateOfInflation is just one example of how in Pres. Trump’s America, information that has been relied on for decades to make critical economic, scientific, environmental, public safety and health-related decisions has been disappearing — scrubbed from government websites or no longer collected because it doesn’t #conform to the administration’s views.”