Civil Rights, Climate Change, and Healthcare Were All Scrubbed from the White House Website
Donald Trump was just sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Just gonna leave that there for a moment.
As part of the presidential transition, Trump's team assumes control of WhiteHouse.gov. Before today, the "Issues" tab of the website had a section devoted to climate change, the existential threat posed to our species that a scientific consensus holds is caused by human activity. That section is completely gone with the website revamp, along with any mention of climate change whatsoever.
This is fine pic.twitter.com/sH691ulnWL
- Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47) January 20, 2017
Trump's new climate change plan: Act like it's not there until it goes away!
In the meantime, he'll concentrate on dismantling environmental safeguards:
Ah ok. Don't worry guys. https://t.co/D2JVaHW2xa pic.twitter.com/nc1fJE2Xvj
- Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47) January 20, 2017
To all air-breathers and water-drinkers out there: Get ready for American greatness. So much for Ivanka Trump: Climate Czar.
Elsewhere on the site, it looks like they're not quite ready to accept applications to work in the White House.
White House jobs website isn’t quite ready yet https://t.co/9ztJauuyqu
- Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 20, 2017
Considering the state of Trump's recruitment drive, this may not prove particularly helpful. Oh, and all that Affordable Care Act stuff is gone too:
No more ACA WH website https://t.co/Fg3zP9UlIs
- Jackie Kucinich (@JFKucinich) January 20, 2017
The Civil Rights section is also missing:
Not to belabor the point ... but civil rights section of the WH website, also gone https://t.co/20zIOymMAQ
- Jackie Kucinich (@JFKucinich) January 20, 2017
And the LGBT section:
So, https://t.co/SfCG8bPfKt is gone.
- Claire Landsbaum (@landsbaumshell) January 20, 2017
Here's what Americans can count on, at the moment:
Update (5:50 PM): A source on the Trump transition team maintains the website will be updated with additional issues in the coming weeks or months, and that the decision to include those currently listed does not indicate anything about their relative importance to others. What issues will be added, and what priority they enjoy in the Trump administration, remains to be seen.
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