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Old 05-29-2017, 07:12 PM
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Defunding Civil Rights Enforcement

All in the name of more tax cuts for the 1% ers.

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By Juliet Eilperin, Emma Brown and Darryl Fears May 29 at 7:29 PM

The Trump administration is planning to disband the Labor Department division that has policed discrimination among federal contractors for four decades, according to the White House’s newly proposed budget, part of wider efforts to rein in government programs that promote civil rights.

As outlined in Labor’s fiscal 2018 plan, the move would fold the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, now home to 600 employees, into another government agency in the name of cost-cutting.

The proposal to dismantle the compliance office comes at a time when the Trump administration is reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials unsympathetic to previous practices.

The new leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, has proposed eliminating its environmental justice program, which addresses pollution that poses health threats specifically concentrated in minority communities. The program, in part, offers money and technical help to residents who are confronted with local hazards such as leaking oil tanks or emissions from chemical plants.

Under President Trump’s proposed budget, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights — which has investigated thousands of complaints of discrimination in school districts across the country and set new standards for how colleges should respond to allegations of sexual assault and harassment — would also see significant staffing cuts. Administration officials acknowledge in budget documents that the civil rights office will have to scale back the number of investigations it conducts and limit travel to school districts to carry out its work.

And the administration has reversed several steps taken under President Barack Obama to address LGBT concerns. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, for example, has revoked a rule ensuring that transgender people can stay at sex-segregated shelters of their choice, and the Department of Health and Human Services has removed a question about sexual orientation from two surveys of elderly Americans about services offered or funded by the government.

The efforts to reduce the federal profile on civil rights reflects the consensus view within the Trump administration that Obama officials exceeded their authority in policing discrimination on the state and local level, sometimes pressuring targets of government scrutiny to adopt policies that were not warranted.

Administration officials made clear in the initial weeks of Trump’s presidency that they would break with the civil rights policies of his predecessor. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of agreements to reform police departments, signaling his skepticism of efforts to curb civil rights abuses by law enforcement officers. His Justice Department, meantime, stopped challenging a controversial Texas voter identification law and joined with the Education Department in withdrawing federal guidance allowing transgender students to use school bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity.

While these decisions have been roundly criticized by liberal activists, administration officials said that civil rights remain a priority for the Trump White House.

“The Trump administration has an unwavering commitment to the civil rights of all Americans,” White House spokeswoman Kelly Love said in an emailed statement.
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Old 05-29-2017, 08:10 PM
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“The Trump administration has an unwavering commitment to the civil rights of all Americans,” White House spokeswoman Kelly Love said in an emailed statement.

Only if they are rich, white and they've kissed his ummm...well, ring. Figuratively speaking.
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Old 05-29-2017, 08:39 PM
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Old 05-29-2017, 08:52 PM
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Quality of life policies are being attacked by the Republican party to support those that wouldn't​ miss them.
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Old 05-29-2017, 09:18 PM
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It is disgusting all this fill the private prisons with potheads and other non-violent people with maximum terms, then we have elimination of freedom of speech, no real news only fake news and alternative facts that are patronizing our fascist dictator, take federal funding for public schools and give to the rich in vouchers they can use in their private elitist schools moving it all to states rights to make discrimination not a federal issue, but instead, concealed carry permits are good across state lines. Just wow!

And of course there is the obstruction of justice by the POTUS, the VP, and most of the cabinet that will never be rightfully impeached.
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Old 05-29-2017, 09:32 PM
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I forgot about making college un-affordable and making medical un-obtainable, taking away what we all have paid for like SS and Medicare and it isn't like we haven't been totally screwed over by taking the cost of food out of the COLA formulation. It just keeps going and going and the majority doesn't seem to give a shit. Just Wow. Then there is the worst SCOTUS in our history....
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Very encouraging to scumbags like this guy...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/us/rac...rnd/index.html
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Very encouraging to scumbags like this guy...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/09/us/rac...rnd/index.html
Yeah, like that is a big deal and black guys sucker punching old white guys just walking down the street sometimes resulting in death rarely gets any coverage.
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Old 06-11-2017, 10:17 AM
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Yeah, like that is a big deal and black guys sucker punching old white guys just walking down the street sometimes resulting in death rarely gets any coverage.
Pity us! Pity! We are sore aggrieved!

Our favorite victims have it bad! Very very bad!

The hell with THOSE guys, though....
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Old 06-11-2017, 10:38 AM
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Yeah, like that is a big deal and black guys sucker punching old white guys just walking down the street sometimes resulting in death rarely gets any coverage.
Two examples of old white guys dieing due to sucker punches delivered by black guys please.
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