BLS is taking a lot of heat for announcing that the CPS sample size will be reduced due to budgetary constraints. As the immediate past Commissioner at BLS, I'm here to tell you that BLS is not playing politics and that we are, indeed, losing the CPS because of poor funding and slow modernization. Congress can help fix CPS by demanding change and funding a better survey. During my tenure and particularly during the pandemic, we used Census and BLS unused travel and conference funds (as well as some Census 2020 funding) to plug the budget holes and vigorously pushed modernization as far as dollars would allow. Even so, response rates and operating costs continued to worsen. The survey's worsening plight is a tragedy: the Current Population Survey is one of the most important economic and social surveys conducted by the US government. That same government, however, has allowed this crown jewel of survey data to languish and sicken. It is not too late to save this program, but we are getting close to the point of no return. If you want the labor market and demographic data produced each month by the CPS, then step up and demand change in the survey and the funding to bring that change about.