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Last Wednesday February 15th, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing called “Oversight: Modernization of the Endangered Species Act” at which Republicans attacked the 43-year-old law as being broken and in need of an overhaul. The Endangered Species Act, a law that has 90% approval ratings according to a 2015 poll, has more than 1,600 plants and animals under its protection.
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In a not particularly surprising move, President Trump weighed in on the government's role in protecting, or in this case not protecting, transgender rights.
The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked federal protections for transgender students who sought the right to use the public school restrooms that match their gender identity, taking a stand on a contentious issue that has become the central battle over LGBT rights.
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A provision of the Trump administration’s plan to increase deportation of undocumented immigrants grants authority for federal agents to deport to Mexico anyone caught crossing the southern border, regardless of where they are from. For example, the United States would push hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Brazilians, Ecuadorans, even Haitians into Mexico. Presently these individuals are detained in the U.S. and allowed to request asylum.
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While the President regularly spouts "support" for the military, his actual policies make active military members' and their families' lives worse.
As taxpayers paid $10m for 3 #Trump weekends in Florida, a Trump hiring freeze ended pre-K, daycare for US military families in Germany pic.twitter.com/C8e317kGAp
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Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of his family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents Trump’s frequent travel belies his repeated criticism of Obama as a “habitual vacationer” enjoying taxpayer-funded golf getaways. It also comes after his own promises: He told the Hill newspaper in 2015, “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done.”