{"id":3044,"date":"2025-11-04T21:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/11\/hurricane-melissa-is-a-reminder-that-the-trump-administration-is-putting-u-s-residents-at-risk-of-catastrophic-harm\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:10:36","slug":"hurricane-melissa-is-a-reminder-that-the-trump-administration-is-putting-u-s-residents-at-risk-of-catastrophic-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa Is a Reminder That the Trump Administration Is Putting U.S. Residents at Risk of Catastrophic Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Jamaicans endure Hurricane Melissa, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser<\/strong> released the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cHurricane Melissa is poised to unleash unspeakable harm on Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, a tragedy which will be deepened by Donald Trump and Russell Vought\u2019s lawlessly unilateral cessation<\/a> of USAID funding. Flooding risks are projected<\/a> to be elevated in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, both U.S. territories. By further expanding planet-heating fossil fuel pollution, the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress are condemning people around the world to more frequent and severe extreme weather, including rapidly intensifying monster hurricanes.<\/p>\n

People in the continental United States are not immune from such lethal devastation. The U.S. mainland has so far lucked out this hurricane season, as storm after storm has turned away before making landfall. However, Melissa serves as a reminder that Americans will face huge\u2014and largely avoidable\u2014risks if and when the game of dice comes up against us. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration has spent the past nine months suppressing climate science, attacking NOAA\u2019s world-class weather forecasting infrastructure, and undermining the capacity of FEMA and state emergency managers. This ongoing assault means that ensuing climate disasters hitting the United States will have the Trump administration\u2019s bloody fingerprints on them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more, see our report, Trump\u2019s Homicidal Hurricane Policy<\/a>, and our tracker on Trump\u2019s Disastrous Disaster Policy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The latter includes an interactive timeline on Trump\u2019s attacks on disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery<\/a> as well as an interactive map on Trump\u2019s disaster aid delays and denials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Jamaicans endure Hurricane Melissa, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser released the following statement: \u201cHurricane Melissa is poised to unleash unspeakable harm on Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, a tragedy which will be deepened by Donald Trump and Russell Vought\u2019s lawlessly unilateral cessation of USAID funding. Flooding risks are projected to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}