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The Trump administration has frozen grants and contracts by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to ProPublica, and blocked employees from providing updates on this change via social media. This could have big effects on the agency's budget and severely undercut its efforts.
In an email obtained by ProPublica, one EPA contractor writes that: "The new EPA administration has asked that all contract and grant awards be temporarily suspended, effective immediately. Until we receive further clarification, this includes task orders and work assignments."
Also, employees have been banned from providing updates to reporters or on social media. The internal memo specifies that no press releases will go out to external audiences, there will be "no blog messages" and media requests will be carefully screened. (Interestingly, the Department of Energy, a fellow federal agency, recently released new guidelines that specifically protects contractors and ensures that they can state their personal opinions.)
Source: The Verge
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USDA scrambles to ease concerns after researchers were ordered to stop publishing news releases, other documents
USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
Commerce nominee Ross promises to protect "peer-reviewed research" at NOAA
CDC postpones climate conference ahead of Trump takeover
Badlands National Park goes rogue with climate-change tweets
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:28PM
"Create jobs?"
He didn't create jobs out of a sense of patriotism, he needed the workers' help to enrich himself. No one hires people out of the goodness of their hearts or because it's good for the country.
If he were patriotic, his goods wouldn't have all been produced overseas. Same goes for his unpatriotic daughter, who still has her junk made in Asia.
Bring money into the country? No, he didn't. A rich man who was truly a patriot certainly would.
"did you accept payment for your service in the USAF?"
Yes, far less than a comparable civilian job would pay, and forfeited all freedom for four years. But I'm not claiming I'm a great patriot, just that Trump is far less patriotic. A real patriot is someone like Senator McCain, I have a lot of respect for that man. Now THAT'S a patriot.
Are the Republicans really in favor of genocide, or are they just cowards terrified of terrorist twit Trump?
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday February 02 2017, @03:28PM
"He didn't create jobs out of a sense of patriotism"
I will now consider the goal-post moved! Now it is not "Did Trump do something for America?" it's "Did he do something for America - under my personally specific definition of patriotism?"
Am I not a patriot because I've never done something within the military? What if I said I spent dozens of hours last year at Habitat for Humanity Veterans' Housing construction projects, digging trenches and pouring concrete?
Is what Trump is going to do for the military and the VA not Patriotism? Is giving them a General to lead not the greatest gift he could give the Military - A true Leader? Rather than a defense industry consultant as Shillary would have done?
Do you find, "Buy American, Hire American" an Anti-Patriotic, triggering, and "problematic" sentiment to promote? What about, "America First?" Does a wave of guilt and political correctness wash over you when you hear people chanting, "USA! USA!"?
McCain is a flamin' RINO. He is 110% a part of the establishment that would sacrifice this country's young men and women in exchange for campaign donations and politicking. He is a very eager cog in that terrible machine which has utterly abused veterans and this country's people time and time again.
Trump is a true Leader - love him or hate him - and he is turning this country in a very different direction for better or for worse. His stated aim is one that seeks to help our vets and our own people before we blow up buildings and rebuild them in other countries - fighting wars, funding both sides of conflicts, all to satisfy some Oil Baron. McCain may be a vet, but only Trump had the *balls* to stand up to the establishment during his campaign, where McCain fully supplicated himself. Patriot or not, I will respect personal competence and strength where I see it.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday February 04 2017, @05:56PM
"What if I said I spent dozens of hours last year at Habitat for Humanity Veterans' Housing construction projects, digging trenches and pouring concrete?"
Then you are a patriot. Has trump done that? No, he hasn't.
"Is what Trump is going to do for the military and the VA not Patriotism?"
I don't believe he'll do it. If he does, I'll change my mind.
"Do you find, "Buy American, Hire American" an Anti-Patriotic?"
Saying it isn't. Doing it is. Note that Trump had all his goods manufactured overseas, and his family still does.
"What about, 'America First?' "
Ever hear what happened to America in 1928? It was caused in large part by protectionism, "America First". America has always done better when cooperating and always done worse when warring, whether a trade war or a shooting war.
"McCain is a flamin' RINO. He is 110% a part of the establishment that would sacrifice this country's young men and women in exchange for campaign donations and politicking."
I don;t believe that. Also, now someone's a RINO if he isn't a wingnut?
"Trump is a true Leader."
Trump is a true LIAR. Leaders don't throw their workers under the bus to make money for his greedy self.
Are the Republicans really in favor of genocide, or are they just cowards terrified of terrorist twit Trump?
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday February 05 2017, @08:08PM
"Has trump done that? No, he hasn't."
Has the goal post been moved again? I haven't done anything for "America" either - I was just helping American veterans, i.e., American citizens. Trump has *also* helped American Citizens by increasing international demand for his products and taking money from other countries, bringing it into the United States. I would hope you are not so blinded by your bias that you will not forgo basic economic theory.
"If he does, I'll change my mind."
That is fair. He has already signed an executive action regarding this, but we will see if that also gets blocked by Democrats.
"Note that Trump had all his goods manufactured overseas, and his family still does."
"Trump Tower was built overseas" is literally what you sound like right now. That is how separated from reality your MSM-fed brain-diet has taken you. Trump is a *real estate tycoon.* When he takes an apartment, hires people in this country to rebuild it, and sells it for $20 mil to a Japanese client, that is taking $20 mil out of Japan and into the pockets of Americans.
"I don;t believe that."
Dunno if you are aware of who George Soros is, but he has donated to McCain's campaigns repeatedly. A small donation from only one of his Fund Management groups in 2016 (along with bigger donations to Paul Ryan)
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000306&type=P&state=&sort=A&cycle=2016 [opensecrets.org]
but about $300,000 to groups that were defending McCain's finance law back in 2002,
https://investmentwatchblog.com/report-john-mccain-paul-ryan-funded-by-george-soros/ [investmentwatchblog.com]
One thing Ryan, McCain, and Rubio have in common? They're anti-Trump. What is Soros' endgame? A "world without borders."
"Leaders don't throw their workers under the bus to make money for his greedy self."
How many people do you think Eisenhower was responsible for the deaths of? Was he not a leader? Think before you opine. This is not a world where everyone will always win, and will always be happy, and will always share, and will always be perfect. You probably wear clothes and use gadgets that were made by slaves - do you REALLY care? Here's a hint: No, you fucking don't, because you still get your end result - cheap bullshit, and a better life for you and the people around you, that you care about. That is what Trump wants to do for America - what he has done for himself. Welcome to Planet Earth: A ceaselessly violent ball of rock where competition for limited resources is a reality.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday February 06 2017, @03:36PM
Trump has *also* helped American Citizens by increasing international demand for his products
All of which he had made OVERSEAS. That is NOT patriotism, and it did NOT help America. Oh, you're talking about hotels and casinos? No, those were for his own enrichment, or he wouldn't have stiffed his workers--his fellow Americans.
I'm not reading any farther, you've obviously swallowed the fraudster's kool-aid.
Are the Republicans really in favor of genocide, or are they just cowards terrified of terrorist twit Trump?
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:59PM
"All of which he had made OVERSEAS. "
You believe that Trump Tower, who has sold apartments for MILLIONS of dollars - bringing that money into the US for further construction projects - is increasing FOREIGN economic strength?!
You are out of your gourd.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 10 2017, @02:31AM
Building materials imported. Clothing, jewelry, all that other crap he sells is made overseas. Trump's hotels don't benefit ordinary Americans. Especially the ones in places like Dubai or Scotland.
Are the Republicans really in favor of genocide, or are they just cowards terrified of terrorist twit Trump?