Are government workers going to stand up to Trump? | Judith Levine
If they capitulate to Maga, the government folds, and we all go down with it
Less than a week in office, Donald Trump gagged all public communications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration. Pending review by his administration, the agencies are prohibited from issuing health data updates and public safety alerts, including those concerning the H5N1 avian flu, which is spreading in poultry flocks, dairy herds, pet cats and people. Bird flu can be fatal to humans, according to the World Health Organization, from which Trump has withdrawn the US.
As precursor to his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, the president halted asylum applications and canceled appointments already on the books. The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will raid hospitals, churches and schools, sites long off limits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But don’t blame the feds if law-abiding immigrants are swept up too, said Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan. “There’s going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities because they forced us to go into the community and find the guy we’re looking for.” The Department of Justice is threatening to bring criminal charges against local officials or employees who don’t cooperate.
Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books
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