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1. He is really mad: Trump wants to fire all USDA scientists climate change; Trump Sherman Tanks WW II
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 06:05 AM
Jul 2019

The fucker is bat shit crazy and needs gone now.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212235022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/democrats-running-out-of-options-to-stop-trump-from-moving-two-usda-offices/2019/07/01/5260a12c-9829-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?utm_term=.5bed0aeb9b4b

Move to Kansas City in 2 weeks .... where they have no offices or labs .... or be fired.

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Members of Congress representing many of the D.C.-based federal workers whose jobs are about to be reassigned or moved to the Midwest are running out of ways to try to stop the Trump administration from relocating those offices.

Democratic lawmakers have written a flurry of letters, bills and amendments in a race to block the measures before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, with little success.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue last month finalized plans to move about 550 jobs at two scientific agencies in the Agriculture Department from Southwest Washington to the greater Kansas City region.

In a separate move, the administration has threatened to furlough and possibly lay off 150 workers at the Office of Personnel Management, the federal workforce’s human resources agency, if Congress blocks the administration’s plans to eliminate the department.

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Trump wants to bring back WW II tanks for his parade.

New Sherman Tanks? Trump Brags Parade Will Feature Them, Though They Were Discontinued in 1957

According to the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey, the President claimed, “And we’re gonna have some tanks stationed outside… So we have to put them in certain areas but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks.”

Greg Miller, also from the Post, pointed out that Trump was mistaken. He wrote on Twitter, “Trump says July 4 celebration will have “brand new Sherman tanks. Sherman tanks haven’t been in service since 1957.”


https://hillreporter.com/new-sherman-tanks-trump-brags-parade-will-feature-them-though-they-were-discontinued-in-1957-39663

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