Circus Back in Town
True to form, the day Trump took over, he announced a slew of executive orders. One executive order reclassifies thousands of government employees as political hires. This will make it easier to fire those employees. And make that entire category of employees have their employment tied to who the President of the day happens to be. Trump had done this during his first term, Biden rescinded it, now Trump reinstates it. Take the decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 climate change agreement. Wait, didn’t Trump already do that in his first term? Yes, he did and then Biden un-did it, and Trump is now re-doing it, dismissing Biden’s policies on clean energy as “the new green scam”. Related to that, Trump has declared a “national energy emergency”. What does that really mean? It will allow the government to fast-track energy fossil-fuel projects. On similar lines, he revoked Biden’s (non-binding) order to have half of US vehicles go electric by...