There's also this story : Basically they DOGE'd the department responsible for collecting inflation data, making that less accurate, too.
"When the government can’t collect data on prices, it has to fill in the gaps with a statistical technique called “imputation.” The more data that must be imputed, the less reliable the overall numbers become."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/business/bls-data-collection-cuts-cpi.html
