The water at or around at least 126 military installations contains potentially harmful levels of chemicals, which have been linked to cancers and developmental delays for fetuses and infants. These included 36 sites with drinking water contamination on-base, and more than 90 sites that reported either on-base or off-base drinking water or groundwater contamination.
For the one millionth time, federal funding to Planned Parenthood is not permitted to and does not fund abortions. This is an attempt to destroy their organization which performs incredibly crucial services. The vital, life-saving role of Planned Parenthood for millions of women is not properly reported or understood by most.
Scott Pruitt is gone and now so is Ryan Zinke. That just means their headline news of corruption has ended but the destruction of our environment pushes ahead with full force, stronger than ever. We all must be aware of what the relatively scandal-free Andrew Wheeler is doing to elminate as many environmental protections as possible while running the Environmental PROTECTION Agency.
It's the quiet things Trump and Republican "leadership" are doing without headlines, while no one is watching, that can be the most evil. That's what we try to post about here in addition to the major news. Here's one that I doubt any one of you reading this head about back in September 2018.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday [9/26/18] placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, an unusual move that appeared to reflect an effort to minimize the role of the office.
As we've documented in more than 30 posts at Smart Dissent, Republicans are working quietly every single day to dismantle healthcare for Americans. While Democrats work towards a form of Medicare for All, with nearly all 2020 Presidential candidates in support, Republicans are actively working in the complete opposite direction. STAY INFORMED.
A good portion of the federal government may be shut down, but you can rest assured that the devoted Obamacare saboteurs at the Department of Health and Human Services are on the job.
One of Trump's repeated promises (lies) during the campaign was to go after pharmaceutical companies and take action to lower prescription drug prices As a follow-up to our November 27, 2018 post, drug makers are jacking up prices proving Trump a liar and fool which we all knew already.
As the Republicans and the Trump administration continues their assault on anything that the Obama administration did, Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Sonny Perdue set his sights on school lunches almost two years ago. Back in MAY 2017, we posted that Perdue's Republican-led USDA was postponing rules to make school lunches healthier.
Now the next steps have been taken:
Trump and Republicans have many ways to destroy Obamacare despite the failure to repeal it in the Senate in 2017. They eliminated the individual mandate in the 2017 tax scam that handed corporations and the wealthiest Americans billions of dollars. They have stripped reimbursements to insurers forcing them to leave the exchanges, ended marketing of the healthcare plans, allowed junk plans that insure almost nothing which crash the system, and more.
The latest came last Friday night:
Rather than doing the soul-searching that should follow a massive electoral loss, Republicans are changing the rules to shield themselves from election outcomes. They are making the government less responsive to the popular will.
In 2016 to little national coverage, North Carolina wrote the playbook Wisconsin and Michigan are using to undermine democracy.
Ben Carson was confirmed as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in March 2017. Carson had zero experience in housing policy, but has said that anyone who questions his qualifications are stupid. He actually said that. Yet here we are and millions ARE SUFFERING as a result.