How Trump and his administration have mired the US in multiple crises

The Trump administration is pursuing multiple policy changes — shrinking the federal workforce, rolling back environmental protections, cutting scientific research funding, and seeking voting restrictions — while the country contends with a convergence of crises including disease outbreaks and environmental vulnerabilities, The Guardian reports. Per the reporting, these moves have hamstrung federal crisis response efforts or, in some cases, actively worsened the conditions.

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