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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

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258 points anigbrowl | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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jleyank ◴[19 Jul 25 00:00 UTC] No.44611189[source]▶
It's really depressing how the US system seems to have existed "on belief". Once somebody set out to damage or destroy it, away it went. Pretty much without a whimper.

As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of government in tension. Obviously, that was naive.

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1. jjav ◴[19 Jul 25 15:01 UTC] No.44616024[source]▶
> As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of government in tension. Obviously, that was naive.

The zero-day bug in the system that had not been exploited until now is that two of the three branches don't actually have any power of enforcement. So if the executive branch decides to just flat out ignore them, there are no consequences.