THE WITHERING U.S. GOVERNMENT

This Administration's policy seems to be to whittle U.S. government down to nothing.

THE WITHERING U.S. GOVERNMENT

Here are a few of the news headlines that have shown up over the past four months that show what Donald Trump is doing to the best professional government on the planet. National Security Council staff will be cut in half. State tallies number of health programs lost in federal cuts. NPR sues Trump over order to slash funding. Entire staff fired that helped poor Americans pay for heating bills; 10,000 federal health workers to be laid off; Local VA staff – many of them vets – shocked, angered after losing jobs; Vendetta against NOAA threatens national and food security, lives; Fired federal workers struggle to replace their old jobs; Entire staff fired that helped poor Americans pay for heating bills; Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire leader of independent agency; Forest Service layoffs dire for state recreational lands; If we gut science, where will future discoveries come from? Trump guts Education Department, fires 1300;Official recounts chaos at consumer protection agency after Trump fired its director; Trump administration ends program critical to search for an HIV vaccine; House Oks cuts for NPR, PBS, foreign aid. (Congress had previously approved funds.) EPA plans to cut scientific research program , lay off more than 1,000 workers; Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire leader of an independent agency, the Office of Special Counsel; Cuts to Legal Services Corporation will hurt access to justice;