It
didn't take long for the new President to hurt people this week: 1) Federal Employees, 2) Women 3) Native Americans 4) Earth Scientists, 5) People in Arts, public broadcasting, humanities 6) Scientists and Environmentalists 7) American Taxpayers(not to mention creating more tension with China and benefiting Fossil Fuel companies.)
DETAILS BELOW:
MONDAY The president issued
2) signed an anti-abortion
executive order,
3) pulled the U.S. out of the TPP
trade deal
4) falsely
claimed millions of "illegals" had cost him the popular
vote.
CBS News and The Huffington Post
(yes, Legitimate news sources)
TUESDAY
ACTIONS:
5) - Keystone/Dakota pipeline projects will resume - on Sacred Native
American lands. With an order to use U.S. steel. [Alexander
Kaufman, HuffPost]6) Federal Workers Ordered To Halt External Communication With Congress and the press. [Sam Stein and Kate Sheppard, HuffPost]
7) EPA Told To Cut Climate Change Page From Website And here's the National Parks Twitter account for a park in South Dakota that went rogue talking about climate change yesterday. [Reuters]
8) -
Gag orders on all public comments to EPA, USDA employees- Stopped Press
releases and social media (BTW,
Government agencies have a MANDATE - to communicate with the public). - This is an action
of a Dictator.
9) - Climate change deniers nominated to head EPA, USDA
10) - Whitehouse.gov website posted Fossil fuel first policy (in place of former climate change pg)
Pending:
11) - Dept. of Energy elimination of Renewals Energy office / policies
12) - Any available public lands likely used for fossil fuel development
13) - Russian sanctions lifted to allow ExxonMobile Arctic development
14) - Likely withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
9) - Climate change deniers nominated to head EPA, USDA
10) - Whitehouse.gov website posted Fossil fuel first policy (in place of former climate change pg)
Pending:
11) - Dept. of Energy elimination of Renewals Energy office / policies
12) - Any available public lands likely used for fossil fuel development
13) - Russian sanctions lifted to allow ExxonMobile Arctic development
14) - Likely withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
15) - Mexican Border Wall - the GOP in Congress are pushing this through, and the AMERICAN Taxpayers will pay for it. The Mexican President said "We will not pay for your F$&%(^) wall." - That's a quote that I heard him say on CNN.
ACTIONS HE PROMISED ON JAN. 19TH over the next couple of week: 16) cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
17) cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
18 )cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
19) cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting....
