MEANWHILE, WHAT IS TRUMP SNEAKING THROUGH?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Thom welcomes Amit Narang, Regulatory Policy Advocate with Public Citizen on Trump's accelerating destruction of environmental law and the EPA, including the rollback of fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. Is Trump cynically using the pandemic as cover to gift his corporate buddies everything they ever wanted?
And, unlike every other developed country which are supporting their citizens with monthly checks, Trump and the Republicans have said they will not be paying out anything beyond the $1200 check. How far will that $1200 go for the average person?
Mark Pocan, Progressive leader in the House of Representatives, joins Thom to answer caller questions on the implications of the stimulus passed in the CARE act, and what more Progressive Democrats are hoping to achieve to help people in need in the coming days- and what the Republican majority Senate will likely refuse to pass.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:18.0 | On the line with us is Emit Narang. |
| 0:20.0 | He is an attorney and regulatory policy advocate with public citizen |
| 0:25.2 | citizen.org. |
| 0:26.8 | His Twitter handle is TRY P T-I-Q-U-E, triptych. |
| 0:31.8 | And Emmett, welcome to the program. |
| 0:34.1 | Hey, nice to be back with you, Tom. |
| 0:36.1 | Hope you and all your listeners are safe and sane or at least safe. |
| 0:40.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:41.4 | Tell me about Donald Trump's, |
| 0:43.6 | while he's doing his daily reality TV show |
| 0:47.1 | in the afternoons on TV and everybody seems to talk about that. |
| 0:51.0 | His agencies, his regulatory agencies regulatory agencies the EPA the Interior |
| 0:54.6 | Department etc they are hard at work what are they up to you know the one |
| 0:59.7 | thing that has not shut down under the pandemic has been the Trump administration's |
| 1:06.0 | relentless quest to roll back consumer worker environmental and |
| 1:11.1 | generally public health and safety regulations. |
| 1:14.6 | And we're at a critical stage here with the Trump administration nearing the end of its first term. |
| 1:21.0 | And so what the administration is trying to do is to not let the pandemic stop their finishing touches on their anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-environment deregulatory agenda. |
| 1:35.0 | It is pretty conspicuous to see the agencies moving full steam ahead, |
| 1:40.0 | maybe even trying to go faster to rush these rollbacks out the door and |
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