Trump Cutting funding to Imperative Environmental and Species protection programs

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Here we go again with this jackass. In very unsurprising news, President of the United States Donald Trump has proposed hundreds of millions of dollars in reduced funding for species and environmental protection programs for the 2019 budget. His 2019 budget sees over 5 billion in cuts to the Department of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency while also adding over 8 billion to his border wall budget. Evidently, his "national emergency" is far more important than protecting animals that are facing extinction or the planet which is also facing perils because of global warming. 

President Trump has made it abundantly clear that animals and the environment mean absolutely nothing to him with his repeated attacks on climate change and removal of protections for animals that are suffering due to hunting and environment loss. He has turned his back on lions and elephants by allowing trophies into the United States and has come out and completely disregarded climate change as a hoax despite warnings from scientists across the globe who actually know what they're talking about. He is not in any way, shape, or form concerned with the environment and evidently thinks that his border wall is far more important. I wonder if he realizes that the border wall won't matter when we're all breathing through oxygen masks and can only read about animals in history books because they're all gone extinct thanks to his lackluster efforts in helping the global community.

While countries across the globe work towards reducing emissions to protect our environment for future generations, Trump is slashing funding for those efforts. While countries work tirelessly to ban ivory, hunting trophies of imperiled animals, and risk their lives to stop poaching, Trump is reducing funding to necessary organizations and acts like the Endangered Species Act which would see animals in need of protection properly looked after. He is making a mockery of his country and essentially demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the real problems our planet face in favour of a "national emergency" that is nothing more than a power trip to get re-elected. He shouldn't be allowed to decide what he eats let alone the functions of an entire country / globe that requires someone who actually is knowledgeable in what's happening.

The Endangered Species Act is the most successful law in protecting animals that are in danger because it means that these animals are properly looked after and funding aids their protection in any way possible. By reducing funding to this, he is working against decades of effort in protecting animals and will definitely be responsible for animals like red wolves, big cats, rhinos, and other endangered animals suffering and potentially becoming extinct. His nationalist views are going to be the destruction of animals and our environment all while pretending that the United States is thriving because of his decisions. As I stated, who will benefit when these animals are extinct? Who will benefit when coastal states are buried underneath water because of ocean rising and warming temperatures? He likely hasn't considered this because he is too narrow minded to look at the bigger picture which is our planet and its survival.

Not only is he a bigot, misogynist, and racist, but he is also so far out of touch with the reality of the perils animals and our environment face that he is working towards their destruction. I truly hope that when 2020 comes around, he has his dreams of a second term stomped all over and he is laughed out of office as he deserves. I feel bad for whoever takes over after him  because they will have so many burnt bridges to repair.

HAPPY VEG