After Trump Mocks a Sea Wall in New York, Plan Is Abruptly Shelved
Source: The New York Times
Subhead: In an unexpected move, the federal government halted a project that might have led to a multibillion-dollar barrier to protect the region from flooding.
By Anne Barnard, NY Times
The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks after President Trump took to Twitter to ridicule the study’s most expensive proposal, a giant sea wall that could have cost billions of dollars.
The Army Corps of Engineers’ announcement that the project was “indefinitely postponed” surprised some of its own officials, and local politicians and advocates said the decision was stunning at a time when climate change is threatening New York’s future with intensifying storms.
In a statement, the Corps’ New York office said only that the study was suspended because it did not receive funding in the agency’s work plan for 2020. Officials there refused to comment on whether they believed that Mr. Trump had influenced the decision. But a senior administration official said the project was shelved because it was too expensive and unfocused.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/nyregion/sea-wall-nyc.html
Trump and his minions are again playing with people's lives because of his own pettiness. (forgive me if this was already posted; I did a search and didn't find it).
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apparently we can't have anything good for the country that red don doesn't understand or doesn't like.
Keep him away from anything the government helps fund that would set him off, like research centers, public universities, and so on or they might be shuttered on a whim.
trump's revenge.
He is getting even with ALL his enemies.
Puerto Rico; The millions who didn't vote for him; California; NY; Strong Women; Canada; Mexico; Farmers; All Democrats and I'm sure there are many, many more. He seeks revenge on any and ALL who oppose him.
Could be why he is messing with the Rule of Law and the federal response to an all but guaranteed pandemic. Also one wonders what is behind his demented hatred of National Parks and Indigenous Sacred Sites and Democracy and clean air and clean water and safe food and children and women and Muslims and Jews and the LGBTQ community and the elderly and the infirm and the Arts (because We, His Enemies, love and support the Arts) and all who are non-white and so on and so on. We are all on his enemies list.
All of us.
Is revenge as sweet as Diet Coke I wonder?
