Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart

[muriel_volestrangler]

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The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News.

All three employees were holdovers from the Obama administration. The departures from the division -- one of four subdivisions within the OSTP -- highlight the different commitment to scientific research under Presidents Obama and Trump.

Under Mr. Obama, the science division was staffed with nine employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM education, biotechnology and crisis response. It's possible that the White House will handle these issues through staff in other divisions within the OSTP.

On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/

Trump is a fucking philistine. The whole OSTP now has about 35 staffers, compared to about 100 under Obama, and 50 to 60 before that. The Republicans really should be renamed the Anti-Truth Party.

[Achilleaze]

1. "We don't need no steenkin facts." - KGOP

The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, is sure leading the whole freaking republican party deeper and deeper into their cesspool of lies, deceit, greed and treason.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Republicans: "deeper into a cesspool of lies, deceit, greed and treason."

That pretty much says it.

[Jim__]

2. In '95 the republican congress abolished the Office of Technology Assessment.

From wikipedia:

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The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was an office of the United States Congress from 1972 to 1995. OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology assessment. It was a leader in practicing and encouraging delivery of public services in innovative and inexpensive ways, including early involvement in the distribution of government documents through electronic publishing. Its model was widely copied around the world.

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Criticism of the agency was fueled by Fat City, a 1980 book by Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an "unnecessary agency" that duplicated government work done elsewhere. OTA was abolished (technically "de-funded&quot in the "Contract with America" period of Newt Gingrich's Republican ascendancy in Congress.

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Republicans thrive on ignorance.

[dalton99a]

3. Rick Perry will give him all the science he needs

[Mc Mike]

8. Congratulations, Rick.

You're the Delta House class valedictorian.

[mountain grammy]

5. Because who needs science. Asshole and his minions say:

fuck you, America.

[Dorn]

6. Remember: Science has a liberal bias

I have always been interested in the fall of Rome, now I am living in the fall of Us.

[bresue]

7. Dump loses his WH army....wherein Mueller grows his!

[IronLionZion]

9. Science is for snowflakes, losers, SAD

If they could, they would probably write Obama's presidency out of the history books too. These assholes want to dismantle everything he has done.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. These assholes are proud of their ignorance