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... employees at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice ... ...President Trump is expected to close the office as he cuts programs to help poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution... ...On his first day back in the White House, he signed an executive order to eliminate all government programs on environmental justice, which are aimed at helping poor and minority communities that are face disproportionate amounts of pollution... ...government programs on environmental justice, which are aimed at helping poor and minority communities that are face disproportionate amounts of pollution.

We’ve been reporting that Donald Trump is no fan of USAID, the US Agency for International Development, and he's determined to reform or eliminate the agency. Bureaucrats within the independent agency have not been taking it well and have been throwing temper tantrums and trying to “resist,” thinking somehow that the electorate voted them into office and not the president. On Saturday night, Trump decided it was a good time to mete out some more consequences for the uncooperative rebels: Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing...

Back around Thanksgiving time, we looked at some groundbreaking reporting from the Washington Free Beacon where they exposed some less than media-neutral activities by one member of the press. Janell Ross, a political reporter for the Washington Post, was found to have participated in a highly secretive, big dollar fundraising and strategy conference for the Democrats. To be clear, Ross was not there reporting on the conference as part of her job. She wrote no articles about it and the WaPo said they didn’t even know that she had gone. She was a participant in the event, even sitting in...