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The inconsistency is what shows the intent. I can see an argument to make for removing things like candy and soft drinks (even if I don't think it's warranted) but the moment these same people end programs that give access to healthy, locally grown, fresh food they toss out any credibility they have to claim they are "concerned about the health" of their citizens.
It's not about health, it's about feeding the rich more money.
Riley Moore stands out (again) as being especially egregious here but "taking credit for failing" is such a MAGA thing. Fight to take away rights and protections of citizens and then if they don't succeeded make a public display that rewrites history.
From CBS News.com: West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
We're super-official back to the 80s and 90s with the West Virginia Senate passing a bill to overturn local civil rights initiatives protecting LGBTQ people in cities:
Part of the intent - other than fucking over the queers, of course - is specifically to protect so-called "conversion therapy," which usually takes the form of parents sending their queer kids off to be abused into being straight. Somehow.
West Virginia Senate OKs bill allowing for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions
West Virginia senators have voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies. Lawmakers overwhelmingly greenlight an exemption for families who believe required inoculations go against their religious or philosophical beliefs. The bill is expected to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey if approved by the House. Morrisey has made allowing religious exemptions to vaccines a priority of his administration. West Virginia is currently one of only a tiny minority of U.S. states that only allows medical exemptions for vaccinations. The state’s policy has long been heralded by medical experts as among the most protective in the country for kids.