Here's What Trump Has Been Up to While Americans Have Been Distracted by Impeachment

[G_j]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/all-things-trump-doing-under-cover-impeachment/605383/?utm_source=email-promo&utm_medium=cr&utm_campaign=monthly-promo-actives-unreg&utm_content=20200131&utm_term=janfeb-20&silverid-ref=NTgzNDU0Nzk5NzExS0


While public attention is focused on the Senate, the president is making controversial policy moves.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff, said days after Barack Obama was elected in 2008. Emanuel’s point was that a moment of cataclysm meant a chance for big structural reforms that wouldn’t be possible in moments of calm.

But there are other ways to take advantage of a crisis, as the Trump administration is demonstrating right now. Even as the president’s impeachment trial moves forward, the White House is acting aggressively on a range of policy proposals that are politically, legally, or morally suspect, wagering—probably correctly—that the press and the people will mostly overlook them amid the drama in the Senate.

The administration has announced a series of major steps just in the past few days, since senators were sworn in for the impeachment trial on January 16.

On January 17, the Agriculture Department announced that it would roll back nutritional standards for school lunches that were championed by former first lady Michelle Obama. (In what the government insisted was a coincidence, January 17 is her birthday.) The changes will likely mean less healthy lunches, but repealing the old rules had become a rallying cry among some conservatives.

That was just a warmup..

..more..

[WhiteTara]

1. they should really stop saying conservative and

call them what they are; racists.

[global1]

2. I Totally Agree With You....

I've read a number of things here on DU that he's done in the last week or so that reverse established law.

Besides the nutritional standards - here's a few more:

- something with setting back the women's movement
- adding more countries to the travel bans

[2naSalit]

3. K&R

[shanti]

4. And we're only one month into 2020

Yes, I'm concerned!

[JudyM]

5. Bloomberg or someone should start publishing full page lists of what the Rs have done.

Let’s make it real.

[pangaia]

8. Absolutely right. DUH !!. . Doesn;t take a genius to figure that out, does it, Judy....

Unkess I miss EVERYTHING, WHY don;t our.. our what.. "leaders," candidates, whomever, use the ammunition given to them/us.

I'm sure i DO miss a lot but...

instead ----candidates, party leaders, and the like are just shooting at each other...
I mean of COURSE the DEM party is 'trying to kneecap Bernie. 'Of course he is dangerous. Oh no he's not. He is the only hope... but young people don;t vote

Oh wait. of course Joe Biden is too old and slow... but he has the support of old folks and AAs..

Bloomberg shuld be allowed in.. NO HE SHOULD NOT-- well, that is a good discussion, I guess.. I have no idea...

and all the rest....

I have o freakin idea WHO can beat trump.. assuming there even IS an election! or a haalf way fair one. or...
Looks like the ruskies are winning...

I'm going to the gym....... well soon, not yet...

[JudyM]

9. Big questions. Wishing we were more united against the real evil empire.

I’m on my way to the gym too, seriously. As soon as I pull myself away.

[pangaia]

10. OKAY. You talked me in to it.

I'll go now also

THANKS !!!

P

[JudyM]

11. Ok, me too.

Thanks for that!

[pangaia]

12. I'm home dear !!

[spanone]

6. he's the worse fucking human being on earth. hands down.

[G_j]

7. I think he strives to be that

and as president, he succeeds.