President Trump’s first seven weeks back in office have been spent abandoning the American people—tearing apart vital programs, withholding funds that save lives and purging the federal workforce. Last Tuesday, he addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time in his second term. Throughout the speech, he boasted about abandoning international agreements, expediting environmental deregulation and gutting federal resources.
Author: Sara Hoverter
Sara Hoverter is the founding co-director of the Center for Community Health Innovation at Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Hoverter is a public health lawyer with expertise supporting communities in oral health access and workforce development, food systems, worker rights and Medicaid. She has written on the strategies that local governments can use to protect frontline communities from the health effects of climate change.