Environment & Energy
Related: About this forum74 Transition Team Questions To DOE - ZERO Questions On Nuclear Weapons, Policy, Programs
EDIT
Sure, theyre looking for any excuse to tear down renewable energy sources and play up oil and gas. Sure, theyre have their blacklist for scientists and bureaucrats ready and itching for names. But theres one rather large thing they missed.
A quick look at the Department of Energy's web site is enough to show that it contains a section called the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The NNSA is
responsible for ensuring the integrity and safety of the nations nuclear weapons, advancing nuclear nonproliferation and promoting international nuclear safety.
During the campaign, Donald Trump made multiple references to the state of Americas nuclear arsenal. Statements which often conflated the idea of aging silo-based missiles with the whole nuclear triadstatements that neatly matched the pervasive alt-white statements that President Obama was allowing our nuclear weapons to fall apart, when in fact Obama instituted a massive plan to update and improve the arsenal (though he would like to scale back that update).
But now, given a chance to ask the agency that takes care of Americas nukes about the state of the arsenal, Trumps team asked
nothing. No questions about the stockpile of material used for bomb making, despite the chest-pounding during the campaign over Russia buying a Canadian company with interest in US uranium reserves. No questions about nuclear counter-terrorism or the threat of nuclear proliferation.
No questions at all about the most central, critical function of the DOE.
EDIT
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/14/1610897/-The-questions-the-Trump-team-asks-show-they-don-t-know-what-the-Department-of-Energy-does#read-more
hatrack
(59,592 posts)It's kind of important . . .
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)with the relevant education or experience of the people being considered. The primary quality sought is first and foremost loyalty to his majesty and secondly how to best destroy or diminish the value of the department you are being considered for. One of the overriding factors for the republican party has always been and always will be to diminish or get rid of all governmental departments that help the American populace as a whole. Then privatize everything that is not nailed down because there will then be no government overseers in their perfect money driven, greed is good world.
nt
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)Very important. My DH works at NNSA.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)work for the DOE in some capacity. I have said before that trump has no idea of the many things DOE and its departments do.