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As documented through Smart Dissent's Environment section, OUR EPA is being gutted. At first, the endless corruption of Scott Pruitt made headlines, potentially slowing down the destruction or at least giving it some attention. However, now the EPA is almost entirely out of the headlines while Andrew Wheeler guts environmental protections that save lives and our planet.
The gutting of the EPA is not just the regulations themselves; it's the people who are pushed out which will set us back in ways we cannot imagine.
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In a move straight out of a tin-pot dictatorship, the Trump Administration has stopped responding to United Nations inquiries into human rights conditions.
The Trump admin has stopped cooperating with U.N. investigators over potential human rights violations occurring inside America, in a move that delivers a major blow to vulnerable U.S. communities....
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The Trump administration, which has already rolled back Justice Department oversight of police departments and Education Department protections for transgender students, is targeting the principle of disparate impact in its latest effort to undermine civil rights enforcement. Let's explain what that means.
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One of Trump's repeated promises (lies) during the campaign was to go after pharmaceutical companies and take action to lower prescription drug prices As a follow-up to our November 27, 2018 post, drug makers are jacking up prices proving Trump a liar and fool which we all knew already.
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Trump campaigned to "Drain The Swamp" and people loved that concept. Heck, that's the basis for Senator Warren's largest legislative push in 2018 - end corruption...ie drain the swamp. Our citizens rightly want to end corruption and drain the swamp. Unfortunately for all of us, Trump was knowingly, entirely lying, and is doing the complete opposite. Also, about 40% of the country is too dumb to understand that.
Here's a prime example of precisely the swamp, the Republican Trump swamp.