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Yvette Clarke: I am astonished that when the Trump administration in 2018 took unprecedented steps to ignore science and remove the…

On the recordJune 28, 2021
I am astonished that when the Trump administration in 2018 took unprecedented steps to ignore science and remove the term climate change entirely from FEMA's strategic plan.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Clarke criticizes the Trump administration's removal of climate change from FEMA's plans.

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