The Trump administration is attempting to justify the ESA exemption for “reasons of national security”, marking the first time a security claim has been made. However, oil and gas companies have not asked for the exemption, raising questions about why it is being requested, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which has sued to stop the committee from convening.
As has been mentioned already, this generation of political leadership not only uses idiotic right-wing propaganda, but has itself been molded and shaped by it. That’s why they’re doing exactly what RW narratives say they should, sometimes even without the special interests who pay to push such narratives prodding them at all.
