They care more about businesses than individual consumers.
Category: Trump appointees
Trump had Lou Dobbs participate by phone in White House meetings
Trump doesn’t need a cabinet or intelligence agencies. He has Fox News. This amazing article describes how Trump has included Lou Dobbs of Fox Business on White House conference calls.
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Which Trump cabinet member gets fired next?
This column made a bracket of which cabinet member is the worst.
Why it matters if Shulkin resigned or was fired.
VA Secretary Shulkin was fired. Now the White House is lying and saying he resigned. This article explains why it matters.
HUD is reducing efforts to enforce fair housing laws
This article points out how the Trump administration intends to… “roll back the Obama administration’s attempts to reverse decades of racial, ethnic and income segregation in federally subsidized housing and development projects.”
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More on the EPA and climate change
The EPA wants to scrap fuel economy standards. This will cause a conflict with California which had the nerve to vote for Clinton so it must be punished.
Phoenix is working with Arizona State University to plan on addressing climate change.
More on the EPA’s approach to science:
“Sound science”, which the EPA wants to push, doesn’t exist.
Former top EPA officials say Pruitt’s approach will paralyze the EPA.
Even the man who led the EPA under Nixon and Reagan disagrees with Pruitt’s approach.
Just another shady financial deal by a Trump cabinet member
According to this article:
“For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, property records from 2017 show.”
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Zinke’s panel on outdoor recreation is dominated by industry members
This article states:
“The membership of the “Made in America” Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee, which Zinke launched in November, marks the third time the secretary has assembled panels dominated by industry players to help chart policies affecting their businesses.”
Zinke is opposed to diversity
John Bolton – a collection of columns about him
Bolton is a war hawk and his appointment increases the likelihood of war. He could do a lot of harm.
Even Republicans know that Bolton is dangerous. Read here about why they didn’t confirm him as UN ambassador in 2005.
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