Saturday 21 January 2017

BACK WHERE IT BELONGS: Bust of Winston Churchill removed by Obama back in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump gets to work scrapping Obama’s legacy – signing order to ‘ease to burden’ of Obamacare and wiping climate change and gay rights from White House website

Trump’s first act as president was to order federal agencies to “ease the burden” of former President Barack Obama’s health care law. He signed off his first executive order moments after he
and Melania arrived at the White House to begin a historic term as President and First Lady.
He also formally signed the commissions of incoming Defence Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
Trump kicked off his plan DURING his speech as he was being sworn in, making his first move to change legislation as he stood on the balcony in Washington.
His bid to scrap the Climate Action Plan appeared on his website as the climate change page of the White House website disappeared – along with the section on gay rights.
The plan, which was branded “An America First Energy Plan” detailed the Trump’s desire for “energy policies that lower costs for hardworking Americans.”
It also outlined how the Trump administration will “take advantage of the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands that the American people own.”
He was under the watchful eye of Sir Winston Churchill, after a bust of the leader was returned to the White House at the request of Trump.
The sculpture first appeared in the Oval Office during former George W Bush’s administration, but was replaced by a bust of civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Since then, it has been kept at the British Embassy in Washington DC.

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