WARREN QUESTIONS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ON POLITICAL INTERFERENCE WITH COMMERCE DEPARTMENT'S ECONOMIC AND CENSUS DATA COLLECTION, REPORTING

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs issued the following news release:

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, wrote to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, Chief Statistician of the United States Stuart Levenbach, and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, requesting information about the Department of Commerce's recent decision to remove the ban on political interference in its scientific integrity policy.

The move reduces the reliability of statistics collected and produced by the department's agencies, including the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Ana...