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Letter: 'Cancel culture' and President Trump

Sauk Valley Letters to the Editor

To the editor:

I find it ironic that Democrats are being labeled as having “cancel culture.”

This president has cancelled a rule that expanded the number of working people who could earn overtime pay, our participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a rule that mandated energy companies report payments to foreign governments, protection for transgender workers, a rule that barred employers from taking tips given to service employees, and one mandating financial advisers act in the best interests of clients.

He cancelled a rule that allowed class-action suits against financial companies, laws protecting women in the workplace, one allowing states to create retirement plans for private-sector workers, another mandating employers maintain records of workplace injuries, and one mandating government contractors disclose past violations of labor laws.

He cancelled President Obama‘s effort to reduce mandatory sentences, the phase-out of private prisons, our membership in the Paris Climate Agreement and the Clean Power Plan, a rule limiting methane leaks from drilling, a ban on drilling in the Arctic, a rule regulating fracking on public land, the proposed ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the ban on plastic bottles at national parks, the ban on lead bullets, and rules banning dumping waste from mining into streams.

He cancelled temporary protected status designations for thousands seeking refuge in the U.S., many UN relief efforts, a rule allowing transgender people to serve in the military, our membership in the UN’s Global Compact on Migration, 72 documents defining the rights of students with disabilities, a policy instituted to expand punishments for campus sexual assaults, school lunch standards, a partnership that policed student loan fraud, the rule that would ban gun sales to those deemed mentally deficient, payments to insurers meant to expand health care coverage for low-income Americans, and net neutrality rules.

Facts matter.

Marie Popkin

Morrison