Trump rescinded Obama order that sought to mitigate flood risk to tax payer funded developments

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" 'Everybody is baffled' by Trump rescinding flood-protection rules, senator says "

" A few weeks before Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, President Trump signed an executive order that erased Obama-era proposals that were intended to make federal infrastructure safer from the dangers of flooding. "

" Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told Yahoo News that the Trump administration’s decision doesn’t appear to be motivated by anything other than reversing everything his predecessor had done. "

“It seems like this administration just decided to go through everything that once was adopted by the Obama administration and return it,” Van Hollen said. “There doesn’t seem to be any policy rationale. It’s purely political, and I don’t understand why they think that’s good politics either.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/everybod...-protection-rules-senator-says-165246845.html

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Description of what the Obama order stipulated:

" Obama’s Federal Flood Risk Mitigation Standard (FFRMS) would have required developers of infrastructure projects that receive taxpayer dollars to take steps to mitigate flood risks, such as accounting for sea-level rise and building at higher elevations. "

So without the order, there is no law forcing developers receiving public funds to build higher up than normal and with better protection. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of pure.
 
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It wouldn't shock me to find that he simply started to rescind orders.
It's what his voters wanted
 
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