If you want to know what the Trump administration has been about, then read this list of ‘midnight regulations’ that they’re trying to implement in their final days in office. I’ll post a few of them below.

The Trump administration is expected to move forward plans to make families of noncitizen immigrants ineligible for subsidized housing.
The Trump administration is expected to move forward plans to increase the speed at which chickens may be slaughtered by putting workers at higher risk of amputations.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to allow 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to operate long haul trucks even though those age groups are generally much more likely to have accidents.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans allow federally subsidized homeless shelters to exclude transgender people.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to loosen restrictions on over-fishing, making it harder to declare locations critical (and therefore protected habitats) and making it easier to develop near waterways and wetlands.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans allow companies that discriminate against people on religious grounds to compete for federal grants.
In the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis that’s affecting millions of Americans, the Trump administration is moving forward with plans to narrow eligibility for food stamps.
The Trump administration (absurdly, in a way that will have zero effect) is moving forward with plans to loosen efficiency standards for clothes washers, dryers and shower heads. Because Trump doesn’t like them.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to stop Washington State’s requiring that truck drivers take sufficient meal and rest breaks, putting truck driver’s lives at risk as well as anyone else who uses the roads.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to lower wages for immigrant farm workers on temporary visas while making it possible to refuse entry to higher-skilled workers unless they have higher salaries.
And to end with, the Trump administration has restarted federal executions, and finalized plans to allow federal death row inmates to be executed by firing squads and electrocution. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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