Cheers to Trump for keeping his campaign promises. I'm cheering it because this means he won't cut Social Security like he promised.
Jeers to You know who. Here's a breakdown of what he'd done so far....
1) Rejected the idea that the least qualified Dept of Education nominee in the history of the country should have another hearing so we can verify just how much she doesn't know (spoiler alert...she doesn't know anything about running the agency and can’t even put a sentence together without grammatical errors).
2) Put a gag order on the EPA so that they can no longer communicate with the press in any way or issue any new contracts...at all. Not even tweeting...and that seems a bit hypocritical. I thought this administration was all for tweeting.
3) Ordered the resumption of drilling on the Keystone XL pipeline which happens to be threatening the health and well being of our native American brothers and sisters. Just close your eyes and forget that he has a financial interest in the company per his 2016 disclosure form. No conflict of interest there. Nope, just the safety of the drinking water for millions of Native Americans, but they don’t count, right?
4) Reinstated the global gag order denying funding to any program that even utters the word abortion even if they don't provide them, which essentially will mean less access to healthcare for millions of women around the world.
5) Removed all Spanish language from the White House website. Yeah…I just can’t with this one. Seriously?
6) CBS has now also confirmed that the President brought his own posse to the CIA to laugh and clap at his ridiculously inappropriate speech so that all of his believers could argue that “sure the intelligence community doesn’t hate him for calling them Nazis because see they laugh at the jokes he tells in front of their fallen hero stars.”
7) The Health and Human Services Nominee says that under his new system if you are eligible for Medicaid, you may not actually get Medicaid. Nope. It will just depend on where you live and how they set it up. Comforting I’m sure to the millions who will lose health care and such a good idea because we all know it’s so easy for people on Medicaid (who have no means to buy their own insurance) to just pick up and move.
8) The House passed the Reins Act which makes it virtually impossible for the FDA or the EPA or any of those other pesky agencies protecting our health to pass any major regulation without it getting it approved by Congress, and we all know just how efficient they are. I’m sure big businesses won’t develop any new chemicals to poison us with in the next four years.
9) Talked about canceling the funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities, which will save a whopping .075% of our multi-trillion dollar budget and I’m sure not cost ANY jobs in the arts or humanities at all. But don’t worry, the 57% we spend on the military is safe and sound.
10) AND as a bonus, in GA we have a spectacularly disgusting display of misogyny by Republican Representative Earl Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs who wants to protect rapists on college campuses by requiring that the police always be involved in any investigation. While that may not sound bad on the surface, there is that little thing about victim’s rights. With this bill, women will be subjected to a whole world of other injustices like having the event made part of the public record even if they choose not to. I’m sure that won’t stop women from coming forward and leave more rapists in our classrooms.
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