Not that this should surprise anyone, but the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service produced a report showing (yet again) that tax cuts for the wealthy do not stimulate economic growth or create jobs, and Republicans had a hissy fit and got the report withdrawn. Story here.
The decision [to withdraw the report], made in late September against the advice of the agency’s economic team leadership, drew almost no notice at the time. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, cited the study a week and a half after it was withdrawn in a speech on tax policy at the National Press Club.…The pressure applied to the research service comes amid a broader Republican effort to raise questions about research and statistics that were once trusted as nonpartisan and apolitical.
I thought this part was hilarious:
Mr. McConnell and other senators “raised concerns about the methodology and other flaws.”
Yes, that well-known expert on statistical methodology, Mitch McConnell, "raised concerns." Sheesh.