USAFacts

Just imagine it in your heads.

Where I get my numbers, folks, USAFacts.org. Steve Ballmer created a wonderful site.

You guys know last night we had a goal of just 20 petition signatures.

We got 59.

Really? Right? When the majority is now saying they have little or no trust in federal government information about elections and politics, foreign affairs, or the environment, a new hole finds.

A survey from Associated Press and the RRC, Center for Public Affairs Research, and USA Facts show that while mistrust of government information has grown since 2024, I would argue since 2001, it's also higher than it was at the end of President Donald Trump's first term, underscoring how his recent attempts, I don't know if it was him, We did have President Biden in the middle there.

To dismantle parts of the federal bureaucracy may have affected public confidence.

Now, how about exposure of the federal bureaucracy? Did you think that? There's another part of this.

we've just in the last year we've done some work with the Robert wood Johnson foundation around public health data.

We've done work also in partnership with USA Facts.

We've held two roundtables with them and we're getting ready to publish the results of that.

And I think that when you talk about non-federal data, one of the things that's both exciting and invigorating and also kind of hard to get your head around is that there's so many flavors of this.

I've sat next to him on the Clippers baseline.

And I can explain that was part of a reporting project that we did in partnership with USA Facts, which is Steve Ballmer's nonprofit government data organization, which we can get into if you want to.

But anyway, I have sat for one quarter and recorded a podcast with him on the baseline at Staples Center.

But let's explain what the news is for people who didn't see this.

I don't know.

He's got his philanthropy and his

USA facts, but this was his passion and is his passion.

And I just, I can't imagine what this is

My question is, you guys are the messaging experts.

So explain to me how you're going to message based on the information on USA Facts.

How are you going to message? We need to increase taxes on corporations.

We need to reduce entitlements and get everybody on board to vote for someone who's willing to do both of those things.