Documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the nonprofit crisis journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump administration knowingly lied about poverty statistics in their rebuttal to a UN Human Rights Council report on poverty in America earlier this year. The UN commission reported that 40 million Americans live in poverty, with five million living in “third world conditions.” The Trump administration’s rebuttal called the report “inaccurate, inflammatory and irresponsible.” The US left the UN Human Rights Council not long after, citing its attitude towards Israel as the reason for withdrawing. While drafting the rebuttal, Mari Stull, a Trump-appointed senior State Department advisor, asked for comments from the Census Bureau and the White House Council of Economic Advisers. The documents obtained by Foreign Policy show that those comments disputed the claims made in the draft by the administration. Most of these comments were ignored, with the original claims making it into the final version shared with the public. Foreign Policy writes: Next to a line in the draft which reads: “The U.S. is entering a new era of economic growth and prosperity,” an official from the White House Council of Economic Advisers remarked that the economic growth had long predated Trump… Read full this story
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