E&E News reported today that following President Trump's victory, the CDC canceled a climate change summit it had planned for February.
The CDC and climate change?: During the Obama administration, the CDC had taken a role in planning for public health problems caused by climate change, including air pollution and rising sea levels.
Why it matters: A former CDC director said that, under Trump, climate change is probably "not an immediately winnable battle," so the agency is likely to let universities and other groups take the lead on research. It has done so previously on other politically controversial topics, like reproductive health.
We got a sneaky look at the Trump transition team's EPA "agency action" plan. It's the guiding (aspirational) document written by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
President Trump's Friday night executive order may not do a lot in itself, but it sure looked like it was aimed at the individual mandate.
Sure enough: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested on Sunday that it was one of the main targets. When George Stephanopoulos asked her on ABC's This Week whether Trump would stop enforcing the mandate, Conway said "he may" — and that Trump wants to get rid of it "almost immediately."
So yes, Trump would like to stop enforcing it quickly — but how quickly can that actually happen?
