Healthcare

When you put lobbyists in positions to make the rules in OUR government, this is what happened.  These are people who spent their career working to find loopholes, create new ones, and re-write the rules to help private companies to make money.  They paid off congress, cabinet, and others to get their way.  Now they are the government employees making the rules.

The Trump administration has completed a detailed legal proposal to dramatically weaken a major environmental regulation covering mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants....

Trump administration officials and many Republicans are so lost in their bubble they sometimes say out loud exactly the evil they plan to do.  It's as if their stupidity overtakes their evil for a moment and they give up their entire game plan to us.  Is anyone paying attention?

A top economic adviser to Trump said on Monday [9/17/18] he expects.... there would likely be an effort in 2019 to cut spending on entitlement programs.  Kudlow did not specify where future cuts would be made.

The headline of this post is a completely accurate statement.  There's hardly anything else we can say but we'll include portions of the sourced articles below.

The Department of Health and Human Services is diverting millions of dollars in funding from a number of programs, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, to pay for housing for the growing population of detained immigrant children.

Nothing is more emblematic of the Trump doctrine than to spit in the face of a poor, homeless American.  Conservatives love to make it sound so simple.  Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps they say.  WHAT IF YOU HAVE NO BOOTS?  What if you literally have nothing?  These safety net programs are the last resort for millions of Americans.

Trump favors imposing stricter requirements on adult recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps, and has disparagingly described beneficiaries as “welfare” recipients.

Sometimes the headline says it all.  Once you've stopped shaking your head in disgust, please continue to read below.

....new internal emails from the US Department of Agriculture show big food industry lobbyists are working hand-in-glove with agency staffers.... top USDA political appointees -- former lobbyists themselves -- are in frequent contact with their old employers and others who are lobbying the agency, and...those lobbyists are seeking to influence the agency on issues large and small.

Trump and Republicans are readying a new round of awful Medicaid changes intended to take coverage away from as many people as possible.

The Trump administration is preparing to let conservative-led states impose additional restrictions on the nation’s health program for the poor that could push tens of thousands of people off coverage.  The changes, involving work requirements and questions about illegal drug use, have been.... the latest chapter of the GOP’s long-running efforts to reshape Medicaid....

The concerted effort to destroy the State Department has been ongoing since Trump took office, first under Rex Tillerson and now under tea-party, Koch Brother favorite Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State.  Today, we learn a shockingly evil new one they're eroding our State Department.... through harming children....

The original post included below is from April 4, 2017 when Scott Pruitt was just getting started with his destruction.  Please re-read to remind yourself on the topic of chlorpyrifos but then see this major update from earlier in August.

A federal court on Thursday [August 9, 2018] ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban a pesticide used widely in farming.

The 2-1 ruling on a lawsuit brought by public health groups and state attorneys general ordered the agency "to revoke all tolerances and cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos within 60 days."

As we wrote in a very important post in June 2018, TRUMP'S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LED BY JEFF SESSIONS IS TELLING THE FEDERAL COURTS TO RULE THE PRIMARY PARTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ILLEGAL.

Paul Ryan will retire come January 2019, at least temporarily.  His political career is best summarized by saying he has championed evil policies while many tout him as an intellectual...the smart one in the GOP.  He's not smart, nor has be accomplished anything positive.  Good riddance.