Right as Reign
During the same cabinet roundtable, Attorney General Pam Bondi told her dear leader that his “first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country. Ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you.” She then added that Trump’s border policies have “saved — are you ready for this, media? — 258 million lives.” (Wow. Even the combination of UV light, injected disinfectant, and Ivermectin never numbers like that!) In addition to that quote being absurd enough to make Kim Jong Un blush, it’s also, as is so often the case, the opposite of reality. The administration is adopting policies that will cost lives, at home and abroad. It turns out the funding and science (not sickeningly sycophancy) is what saves lives. Science: NIH Under Siege.
+ Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis.
+ “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an ‘existential threat.’ Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.” The New Yorker: A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration.
+ NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths.
+ This is just a small subsection of today’s news about the science cuts at home that, especially when paired with the attack on university research, will have massive longterm implications in America. The implications of our policies are already costing lives abroad. “For 15 years, Chanda has been meeting truckers in dusty parking lots at the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to give them their HIV medications. Now, he says, he doesn’t know what to tell them. He’s lost his job as a community health worker. The U.S.-funded program he worked for — which supported the mobile clinic where he collected the medications for distribution — shut down.” NPR: What Trump’s first 100 days has meant for these truck drivers and sex workers.
+ NBC News: Calling it ‘illegal DEI,’ Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes. (Sometimes the metaphor just writes itself.)
