One of my big concerns about the Trump administration is their war on science. Trump put Scott Pruitt in charge of the EPA, knowing he is a longtime adversary of the EPA and will slowly erode any power the EPA has, through cuts in regulations.
"As Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt has sued the EPA 14 times to block clean air and water safeguards from EPA"
Also the CDC is being weakened by Trump. Not sure if it made the rounds on this thread but Trump sent a list of banned words to the CDC.
"Trump Administration has now identified 7 words that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can no longer use in official budget documents. According to the article, Alison Kelly from the CDC’s Office of Financial Services met with senior CDC officials for 90 minutes on Thursday and gave them the following list of banned words, not in any particular order because they all supposedly will be banned":
- vulnerable
- entitlement
- diversity
- transgender
- fetus
- evidence-based
- science-based
WTF