According to reporting by Punchbowl, Donald Trump recently told Mike Johnson, when the Speaker suggested moving on the Bipartisan Senate passed Housing Construction Reform Bill, that “No one gave a s–t about housing.”
Mr. Trump is also on the public record calling climate change a hoax and combatting it “a scam.”
Well, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and other Democratic Attorney Generals across the country have a different perspective on both issues, launching two more lawsuits against Trump over his destructive housing and environmental policies.
On March 16, Mayes, while she and her team have been busy going after drug suppliers, tax scammers, and illegal betting, joined 14 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, designed to stop them from cutting federal funding for state and local fair housing enforcement agencies.
That Mr. Trump would want to cut off funding to these agencies should not be surprising, given his and his father’s history with open discrimination toward non-whites on some of their housing development projects in the 1970’s.
Commenting on the lawsuit, Attorney General Mayes said in a press release:
“Arizona’s fair housing laws exist because our legislature passed them, and they exist for good reason. Housing discrimination is real, it harms real people, and these laws are how we hold bad actors accountable. The federal government cannot hold critical funding hostage to force states to abandon those protections, and we won’t let it.”
On social media, the Attorney General and her team posted:
Later in the week, after securing a victory in the First Circuit Court of Appeals over the Trump regime’s efforts to freeze federal monies, earmarked for the states, Attorney General Mayes joined other Democratic States and Cities in launching a lawsuit to have the courts rule against the Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of the “2009 Endangerment Finding – the agency’s seminal determination that greenhouse gas pollution from motor vehicles drives climate change and endangers public health and welfare.”
In a press release, Ms. Mayes, who has been crisscrossing the state listening to Arizonans’ concerns in Tucson and Prescott about rising utility costs during a season where Arizona seems to have skipped spring and gone straight into summer, commented:
“On the day we file this lawsuit, much of Arizona is under an extreme heat warning due to an unprecedented early heatwave that has spiked temperatures over twenty degrees above normal. The science behind the 2009 Endangerment Finding is real and grounded in rigorous research. It is abundantly clear that greenhouse gas pollution has fueled climate change in our state and across the entire planet. The decision by the Trump administration to rescind the Endangerment Finding will only accelerate climate change. Putting the profits of the fossil fuel industry over the future of our planet is a failure of historic proportions and we will fight it with every tool we have.”
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