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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The EPA plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution, one that experts said has never been peer-reviewed and is not scientifically sound.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution....


Monday, June 3, 2019

The Trump admin wants to shift money for Pell Grants for college education to fund Trump's other pet projects.  Pell Grants help low-income students pay for college.

The Trump administration is hoping to shift money for Pell Grants for college education to fund new spending.... Under a budget amendment sent Monday evening to Congress, the administration would use an additional $1,900,000,000 in surplus Pell Grant money to fund other budget priorities...


Thursday, May 30, 2019

 Trump’s administration will propose a rule that would allow homeless shelters to deny transgender people equal access.  This combined with allowing denial of healthcare services to transgender individuals, which we will be adding to the Smart Dissent database next week, mean that Trump and Republicans have UNDONE EVERY TRANSGENDER PROTECTION PUT IN PLACE BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMIN.


Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Republicans took the wrong message from being trounced in November 2018 by the largest margins in midterm history.  So many important reasons why they were crushed but instead of reflecting on any of the hundreds of them and adjusting their platform to work on behalf of the good of our people and country, their response is to attempt to suppress votes in order to maintain power.  This is disgusting, evil, illegal in many cases, and just flat out infuriating.


Tuesday, May 28, 2019

More than 1 million Americans have lost their health insurance under the Trump administration. They've sabotaged the Affordable Care Act every step of the way.


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