The disbanding comes days after Lutnick said he would strip government spending from the GDP report, a move some economists said was impossible and intended to obscure the economic impact of deep spending cuts and mass layoffs being pursued by tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

“When you go down that rabbit hole, it’s like trying to unscramble the eggs,” said Brian Bethune, an Economics professor at Boston College. “For example, a lot of the defense spending goes to private contractors. So how can you cut that out of GDP? It’s a ridiculous idea.”

If you want fabricated numbers to make your policies look good, you’re also going to dick up things for companies and institutions who use those numbers for planning.