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The Trump administration finalized rule changes to the Endangered Species Act on August 12, 2019 that make it harder to protect plants and animals whose populations are in serious decline. They are intentionally, significantly weakening the nation's bedrock conservation law credited with rescuing the bald eagle, grizzly bear and American alligator from extinction.
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We have been warned that the Trump administration and Republicans might move from targeting illegal immigrants to green card holders to naturalized American citizens to U.S. born citizens with the “wrong” immigrant parents. Trump's tweet just in early August 2019 telling members of Congress to “go home” shows the next progression. And now this:
The Trump administration introduced a new rule Monday [8/12/19] making it harder for low-income, legal immigrants who receive food stamps or other forms of taxpayer-funded assistance to stay in the country legally.
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In December 2018, Smart Dissent wrote that the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency was expected to propose changing the definition of “Waters of the U.S.” to erase federal protections on some waters, shrinking the number of waterways that are protected from industry pollutants. They were purposely seeking to weaken federal clean water rules designed to protect millions of acres of wetlands and thousands of miles of streams nationwide from pesticide runoff and other pollutants.
FIVE ALARM FIRE. Now it's a reality.
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Republicans are standing behind Trump and Stephen Miller's plan to STEAL MONEY FROM OUR MILITARY. These funds being stolen will prevent new schools and houses that serve our military bases. Beyond that heartless action, there's the matter of national security which our Air Force confirms is greatly harmed due to this.
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Under a new plan released August 23, 2019, hundreds of thousands of acres inside what used to be Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument will be available for mining