One very simple question today:
In the midst of a global health emergency unlike anything humanity has faced for at least a century, is now the time to do more to protect people or less?
Foolishly — and just as predictably — mutterings are emerging from the White House of plans to suspend or even repeal a broad swath of federal safeguards.
On the chopping block are essential health and safety laws, consumer protections, workplace regulations, civil rights laws, environmental policies and more.
Trump — and the assorted grifters, charlatans and corporate fat cats that make up his administration — like to pretend that they are hurling into the abyss of deregulation for the sake of the economy.
Rubbish.
This is nothing but a flagrant attempt to exploit a crisis to get something Big Business and its political puppets have always wanted: zero restraints on their myopic quest for profits.
And they are more than willing to sacrifice the well-being of everyday Americans, our public health and the planet we live on to satisfy their greed.
Ironically, Monday marked 10 years since the day oil giant BP ripped a hole in the ocean floor, ultimately “spilling” 210,000,000 gallons of raw petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico during its Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
That’s what inadequate regulation and enforcement gets us.
Public Citizen is intently monitoring Trump’s deregulatory maneuvers.
And we will not hesitate to sue the administration if it fails to follow appropriate processes or exceeds its authority.
Stay tuned, and stay safe.
- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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