Accusations he threatened government scientists over a hurricane forecast is just the latest controversy for the commerce secretary.
A report by the New York Times that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross coerced officials in his agency to retroactively rewrite the forecast for Hurricane Dorian to support President Trump’s warning that it could hit Alabama is the latest in a series of embarrassments that have made the mild-mannered octogenarian one of the most controversial officials in the cabinet.
But whether or not Ross specifically threatened to fire anyone, the White House made its point when NOAA released an unsigned statement Friday contradicting its original forecast, saying in effect that Trump was correct. That development is now under examination by the Commerce Department’s Office of the Inspector General. In a statement Tuesday, Jacobs said, “Weather shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
“I am mystified why nothing have [sic] been done in response to my months old request that we include the citizenship question. Why not?” wrote Ross in a March 2017 email. The DOJ request didn’t come until December of that year. “Mr. Secretary, you lied to Congress,” said Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo. “You misled the American people and you are complicit in the Trump administration’s intent to suppress the growing political power of the nonwhite population. You have already done great harm to the census in 2020, and you have zero credibility. And you should, in my opinion, resign.”
But even if he doesn’t clear the bar as a billionaire, Ross’s public statements embody the worldview of the 0.001 percent. Rather than feed their families from food banks, government workers furloughed by the government shutdown in January should just take out a bank loan, he suggested.
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