Trump Is Paying Back Corporations by Wiping Out Regulations

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http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/opinion-trump-paying-back-corporations-wiping-regulations

Opinion: Trump Is Paying Back Corporations by Wiping Out Regulations
11 protections have been lost through CRA resolutions so far
Posted Apr 11, 2017 12:10 PM
Lisa Gilbert


If many of President Donald Trump’s proposals become law, regular Americans — including many diehard Trump supporters — have a great deal to lose.

In the past month, this has been illustrated most clearly through Trump’s health care plan and his proposed budget, both of which would harm regular Americans to pay back the Republicans’ benefactors and corporate cronies.

But it is also true of the newly overused Congressional Review Act, or CRA, resolutions of disapproval, which drew national attention last month when Congress voted to repeal broadband privacy protections.

CRA resolutions stem from an antiquated law created by Newt Gingrich and are being abused to attempt to permanently wipe out the safeguards that protect Americans from corporate privateers, pickpockets, polluters and predators. While Trump’s widely critiqued health care and budget proposals may never become reality, 11 CRA resolutions have already been signed into law, and two more may be signed soon.

In addition to the broadband privacy safeguards, the protections we just lost due to these rollbacks would have stopped big oil companies from bribing governments at the expense of nearby communities, protected our streams from mining companies intent on dumping toxic chemicals into our irrigation and drinking water, kept firearms out of the hands of individuals with severe mental health disabilities, increased local input into federal land use planning decisions, protected workers employed by abusive and dishonest federal contractors, helped schools meet their obligations to disadvantaged students, helped better prepare teachers for the challenges of the classroom, set reasonable limits on who may be drug tested as a condition of receiving unemployment benefits, required employers to keep accurate records of workplace injuries and illnesses, and protected Alaskan wildlife.

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Repealing public protections using the CRA is a fundamental betrayal of candidate Trump’s promises to drain the swamp, rein in Wall Street and defend the middle class. Even worse, it’s an escalation of the corrupt insider-dealing he campaigned against.

Trump, congressional Republicans and their corporate cronies may not have been able to unite behind a federal budget or a plan to repeal Obamacare. But when it comes to dismantling public protections, rigging the rules for their own personal benefit and preying on American workers, consumers and families, they know how to work together. It’s regular Americans who are paying the price.

Gilbert is the vice president of legislative affairs for Public Citizen.

[democratisphere]

1. drumpf and the redumbliCONs have always been all about the corporations and Wall Street.

redumbliCONs have never cared about anything related to "We the People". There is a Wall Street and corporate infestation with the drumpf administration and it needs to be fumigated to get rid of the vermin.