"Some of the Trump agenda is standard for a Republican president. White-collar criminal prosecutions have hit a 33-year low. The Justice Department defends state laws that could kick thousands off the voting rolls. The National Labor Relations Board is now more sympathetic to employers than unions. And military spending is on track to reach the same levels as during the height of the Iraq War. But he’s gone further. While the media, understandably,
focuses on Trump’s many scandals, his administration has quietly enacted
a far more aggressive agenda than his Republican predecessors. Big
boosts to fossil fuel production have come at the expense of an
unprecedented deterioration in air quality. Tens of thousands of people
have lost health insurance by administrative fiat, and millions are in
the process of losing their nutritional assistance through the same
mechanism. He’s remade the judiciary, installing conservative judges at
twice Obama’s pace, and he’s consolidated a conservative majority on the
Supreme Court that may endure for decades."
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