Yeah, drumpf was gonna eclipse Obama, cancel all his executive orders, like he was never there, yada, yada, yada…
After Harvey, the Trump administration reconsiders flood rules it just rolled back.
“A couple of weeks ago President Trump scrapped Obama-era rules, intended to reduce the risks posed by flooding, that established new construction standards for roads, housing and other infrastructure projects that receive federal dollars.
Trump derided these restrictions, which were written in response to growing concerns over the impact of climate change, and other federal rules as useless red tape holding back the economy.
“This overregulated permitting process is a massive, selfinflicted wound on our country — it’s disgraceful — denying our people much-needed investments in their community,” he said in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York during an event to tout his infrastructure policies.”
Then this happened:
Cue up new tune:
“This potential policy shift underscores the extent to which the reality of this week’s storm has collided with Trump officials’ push to upend President Barack Obama’s policies and represents a striking acknowledgment by an administration skeptical of climate change that the government must factor changing weather into some of its major infrastructure policies.
White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said in an interview that the administration had already been planning to replace the 2015 standard that Trump rescinded Aug. 15 as part of a broader executive order on infrastructure. But Bossert added that, given the damage the storm has wrought and the money the government is poised to spend, “It might expedite our efforts to reach coordinated consensus here as we institute policy.”
In other words drumpf rescinded Obama’s order just to reinstate it once it rained.
Like Annie sang:
“The sun will come out tomorrow-
So you gotta hang on-
'til tomorrow, come what may!-
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow-
You're always a day away!”-