tl;dr: The US Department of Commerce has banned "noise infusion" — including differential privacy — from Census Bureau and BEA statistical releases, mandating coarsening and suppression instead. The author argues this will force a brutal trade-off: future releases will either be far less useful (especially for small/minority populations) or dangerously vulnerable to reconstruction attacks, since randomness is what makes such attacks computationally hard. Possible motivations range from enabling gerrymandering-friendly re-identification to simply pretending the privacy/utility trade-off doesn't exist.