By Kim Bellard
Perhaps you are the son of the person who acts as if the food in the grocery store somehow appears magically, without vulnerabilities of the supply chain along the way. He is confident that the water that drinks and the air that breathes is fine, without worrying about what Gothes could have before reaching you. You believe that the chances of a tornado or a hurricane that reaches its location are low, so there is no need for any early warning system. You think you are healthy and do not have to worry about annoying outbreaks or direct epidemics.
Well, I worry all those and more. Say what you want about the federal government, and there are many things that do not work well, it has served as the monitoring and warning system for these and other potential calamities. Now, under Doge and the Trump administration, many of them have been destroyed or at least are at risk.
But, at the end of the day, the thing is at risk.
Here is a non -exhaustive list of examples:
FDA: Althehoh HHS Secretary Kennedy has promised that he will keep the thousands of inspectors who will supervise the safety of food and medicines, has suspended a quality control program for its food test laboratories, and has supported, among others, others, owing others, Eany, Owangement, another, Owangement, Owangment, Owangement, Owangement. Go inspect. Even before recent recent, a 2024 GAO report warned that the FDA was already very short in the inspectors.
The FDA has already fired the key personnel responsible for tracking the flu of birds, including Virtualy, the entire leadership team in the office of the director of the Center for Veterinary Medicine. In addition: “Food compliance officers and animal drug reviewers survived, but do not have anyone in the communications office to present a security alert, no administrative staff to pay external laboratories to test products,” an FDA official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, CBS news.
Worse, the drafts of Trump’s budget proposal would further reduce the FDA budget, partly by moving “routine” food inspections to states.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Oh God, where to start? The cuts have closed the laboratories that help track things like antibiotic resistant and gonorrhea sprouts. We are having difficulty tracking the current measles outbreak that began in Texas and has now extended to approximately half of the states.
The White House wants to encourage more people to have babies, but has reduced a national surveillance program that collects detailed information on behavior and maternal experiences to help states improve results for mothers and babies. It helped, among other things, to compare FIV clinics. “We have a follow -up of the legs for 38 years, and has improved the health of mothers and the understanding of mothers’ experiences,” said one of the statisticians who let go The Washington Post.
The smoking and health office was effective, in what an expert called “the best gift for tobacco industry in the last half century.” The CDC cuts will force the consumer product security commission (CPSC) to stop collecting data on injuries that result from car accidents, alcohol, advertising drug effects, aircraft incidents and work -related injuries.
And if you are thinking about the cruise for a cruise, you should know that CDC cruise inspections have fired, only although cruise companies pay those positions, not for the federal government.
EPA: Although the head of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, “absolutely” guarantees that Trump Cuts won people or the environment, the EPA has already announced that it will stop collecting data on greenhouse gas emissions and closing the vision and living and living will affect the way in which the industries of the waste and recycles will measure the industries and track their environment neighboring communities. “
The EPA has proposed to retreat 31 key regulations, including those that limit the pollution of the harmful air of cars and power plants; Restrictions on the emission of Mercury, a neurotoxin; and clean water protections for rivers and streams. Mr. Rarin called it the “best day of deregulation that our nation saw” and declared it a “dagger directly in the heart of the religion of climate change.” But, of course, he won anything.
The EPA is also proposing to loosen rules about storage and elimination of coal ashes. Most of us do not know much about coal ashes but Environmental Health News He warns: “Ash coal is one of the largest currents of industrial waste in the United States, which contains toxic elements such as arsenic, mercury and lead.” Meanwhile, the Niosh sister agency has fired two thirds from the personnel who perform black pulmonary evaluations for coal miners, despite President Trump’s alleged love for coal miners.
NIH: What is happening with the NIH deserves and an article alone, some of which are covered before. The Trump administration has frozen a lot of research on its way, took off a generation of young scientists, is severely reducing the amount of financing of general expenses in which research universities have trusted and is now using NIH subsidies for politicians!)).
Its proposed budget would reduce NIH’s budget almost halfway and consolidate its 27 agencies in eight. “This will complete Kneecap’s biomedical research in this country,” said Jennifer Zeitzer, executive deputy director of the American Biology Federation of Experimental Biology. Science.
He could continue with other agencies, it would be negligent if he did not observe that cutting into the National Meteorological Service and NOAA means “degraded operations” that, mark my words, will come to chase us.
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Propublic Call the administration’s efforts as a “war on measurement”:
In agency after agency, the government is losing its ability to measure how American society is working, which makes it very difficult for elected officials or others to evaluate the nature and scale of the problems we face and the effectiveness of solutions.
He continues to affirm: “Looking in a way, the war on measurement has an obvious potential motivation: it makes it difficult to evaluate the result of the consequences of the dismissals of the Trump administration, the deregulation or other changes in politics.”
Efforts are also a war against science. The denaders of climate change and vaccine negators are examples of how we have confirmed our lives and health to people who reject well established science in favor of their own personal beliefs, especially when the great donors will do.
This is a crisis. This is a catastrophe. This is our future, and we gain that some of that is happening until it is too late to do something about it.
Kim is a former emarketing executive in an important blues plan, editor of The Late & larmente Tintura.ioAnd now regular THCB collaborator