Clampdown on US government departments: Is only propaganda allowed now?
The Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington DC [Image: Thinkstock/Getty Images].
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture have been placed under de facto gag orders by the Trump administration, according to documents obtained by news organizations.
The president has banned EPA employees from “providing updates on social media or to reporters,” according to interagency emails first obtained by the Associated Press, and barred them from awarding new contracts or grants as well. Trump is reportedly planning massive cuts and rollbacks for the agency.
Over the weekend, the Department of the Interior’s social media privileges were briefly suspended by the president after the National Park Service published a picture comparing Trump’s inauguration crowd to that of Barack Obama in 2009.
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One has to ask why the National Park service posted the picture of Obama’s inauguration, and a picture of Trumps hours before the event, in the first place. One can only assume it was a Hilary supporter abusing his position and pretending the NPS had itself posted the images. One would assume that the NPS itself should have closed down the site until the misleading images could be removed.
The image of the Trump inauguration was taken as he was taking his oath of office. See: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/crowd-controversy-the-making-of-an-inauguration-day-photo
I wonder where you keep finding this false information and why you keep posting it here.