President Donald Trump has declared war on the environment, science, and public health.
Trump is trying to allow industrial development and oil and gas leases on public lands, threatening not just the natural beauty of our national parks and other wilderness areas, but also violating the sacred lands of many indigenous tribes.
Trump is also undermining scientific research, through cancellation of grants for scientists, and denial of major research funds for many leading universities.
And Trump, through his diabolical Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is putting all Americans’ public health needs, including vaccines, in dire danger.
Already, the disease of Measles, which had been declared no longer a threat to public health decades ago, is showing up in hundreds of cases in many states, due to RFK Jr’s anti vaccine campaign, threatening many children, and already causing some tragic deaths.
The drain by firings and resignations of top environment experts, scientists, and doctors and nurses, is threatening long term damage to areas of public policy, that once were considered inviolable areas to undermine.
Elon Musk and the now ended DOGE (Department Of Government Efficiency) caused massive harm in its aim to cut federal spending, and has helped create the crisis that has developed in these crucial areas of the environment, science, and public health.