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Not that it makes any difference anymore, but the Forest Service was created by several acts of Congress, and the president has zero authority to dissolve it.
Since we live in a fascist dictatorship run by a dementia-riddled orange pedophile, I guess it doesn't matter. But I still felt the need to point it out.
If you read the article though, it's not as simple as being dissolved. They're just massively reorganizing how it's run so it's dysfunctional and the original mission is lost. They're letting states (industry) have dominating access and control over USFS policies and shutting down long running and irreplaceable research projects. Like RFK's CDC, if you stop testing and gathering facts, you can then justify any policy you want.
Can you provide a source for research being shut down? Only thing I’ve seen stated is research being moved to a centralized location, but nowhere has anyone stated whether any research is being shut down, and that would thus he speculation
They are closing the labs where the work is happening. You can't just throw your experiment in the back seat of your car and drive to Colorado.
And how can you centralize research when so much of it is location specific? It's costs more money to fund "off site" long distance research on a temporary basis versus having something local and long term.
Luckily that reorganization is also illegal, and this will be reversed in the courts
Yeah, but that will take months, and in the meantime, the offices are closed, people are out of jobs, research is interrupted and lost. 9 months from now, the courts will tell them it's illegal, and they'll just say, "So what?"
They still get what they want anyway, so who cares if it's illegal? It won't stop until people start going to prison.
Eventually, after much of the damage is done and essentually irreversible.
Let's not forget it's not all the orange baboons fault. He is surrounded by a gaggle of buffoons that itch to do his bidding, the checks and balances have been bought and paid for. This is a systemic failure of our government that has been guaranteed since big money got into lobbying. If not for big PACS and private donors trump would not be able to accomplish all the shit he has done. The wild dog has been let off the leash and any body that disagrees gets bit. Don't give trump all the credit he's not that smart, there are plenty of players in this game that makes it possible for us to get so utterly fucked. Remember this at the ballot box, and make damned sure every person you know does too. Let's not forget voter complacency is partly to blame here, our country doesn't fail us like this without our complacency.
I like your last point. The American people long ago fell asleep at the wheel. We either gobble up propaganda and vote for his insanity or don't think it matters and sit out. Chickens are coming home to roost.
Indeed, for that to matter, the US constitution would have to be enforced, against the executive.