[inamberclad]

Firing your subordinates because you don't like the number they report to you is how you obliterate the functioning machinery of government.

[legobmw99]

Hard to imagine that isn’t part of the goal at this point

[chung8123]

The numbers were super wrong for June and July. It could appear that they were fired for misleading numbers from the previous months.

[snowwrestler]

Revisions are common.

[beefnugs]

What was his actual job description? Was he just the guy putting numbers into an excel sheet? Or was he supposed to enact policy to make these results better? Or was he suppose to portray objective truth? Or is he suppose to make up whatever bullshit makes the government sound like they aren't completely breaking everything? I guess we know which the next guy will be working toward.

[kccoder]

Which is their goal