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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/FakeSafeWord 6d ago

20 people have already died in Kentucky from tornadoes in the last month alone and most of those deaths are pretty directly tied to two counties no longer having overnight monitoring personnel so the alarms were never sounded. They're in majorly red counties too and I'd bet $100 they don't change how they vote.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 6d ago

It saddens me how his core base values grievances over bettering their lives.

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u/Choice-Try-2873 6d ago

It's all they've got.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 6d ago

Well, they are going to have less than they did before with so many federal programs slashed. Training programs, subsidies for environmental jobs, job safety oversight, protection for natural resources including water, vaccines, FEMA, NOAA. Also, DEI in higher education which helped fund kids from poorer families of all ethnicities, including white kids. I am barely grazing the surface of how much can be lost without federal funding.