300 YEARS to recover....

[kadee79]

It could take Joshua Tree National Park up to 300 years to recover from damage it sustained during the partial government shutdown, a former park superintendent said Saturday.

Curt Sauer, who retired as Joshua Tree’s superintendent in 2010, spoke to a group of some 100 park advocates who gathered on Saturday in protest the environmental and economic effects on Joshua Tree during the shutdown.

“What’s happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years,” Sauer said, according to the Palm Springs Desert Sun.

Three thousand miles away, President Donald Trump the previous day announced a short-term plan to reopen the government for three weeks.

The announcement was a clear concession on his part, temporarily shelving his demands for $5.7 billion in funds for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border ― a project Democratic lawmakers firmly rejected. The short-term deal came on the 35th day of the shutdown, the longest in United States history, and after over 800,000 federal workers had already missed two paychecks. (Trump promised the affected workers would get back pay “very quickly or as soon as possible.)

He said he is prepared to shut down the government again if funding for his border wall is not secured by the end of the negotiation period.

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[Tennesseer]

MAGA!

[Tennesseer]

Saw this earliertoday.


Trump’s EPA will not set legal limit on dangerous chemicals in drinking water, report says

Chemicals have been linked to cancer, thyroid disease, and weakened childhood immunity.


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[kadee79]

Yep, who needs all these poor folks, we'll drink bottled water & be safe..they think.