Trump administration caves, won't close Job Corps training centers

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The Trump administration, backing down before bipartisan pressure, will not shut down nine Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers at which the U.S. Forest Service trains at-risk youth in emergency management and other skills.

The Fort Simcoe training center, at White Swan on the Yakama Indian Reservation, was one of the centers on the chopping block. So were the Anaconda and Trapper Creek centers in Montana, and Timber Lake in rural Oregon.

The closures would have laid off 1,100 federal employees in Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arkansas and Kentucky.

"Glad so many of my colleagues from both sides of the aisle joined me in this fight: Huge, huge victory," Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, tweeted after getting off the phone with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-caves-wont-close-job-corps-training-centers/ar-AAD9uOr

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1. Captain Tough Guy folds again

I have no idea what point the administration was trying to make in shutting down this program (except the usual cussed cruelty), but look what happens when they're confronted with solid opposition. Keep pushing back. Keep fighting. The administration will either let this slide quietly by, or claim their capitulation to be the victory they wanted all along; we don't have to let Trump's delusion become our reality.