Buried in that insane news conference in which Donald Trump defended murderous nazi scum who rioted in an American college town killing a woman, was Trump's executive order to strip away Obama-era rules to protect people from rising sea levels caused by climate change.

Under the false pretense that regulations discourage development, the orange clown signed an order to eliminate and streamline some permitting regulations.  The stated goal is to hasten construction of roads, bridges, and pipelines, which would somehow return manufacturing jobs back to the country.

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama signed the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, which directed agencies to use the "best-available, actionable hydrologic and hydraulic data and methods that integrate current and future changes in flooding based on climate science" in government construction projects in flood plains.  That was meant especially for low-lying coastal areas that are most at risk of going under as global warming melts the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers, causing seas to rise.  It also gave agencies the option of building to withstand a 500-year flood.

Unfortunately, the orange clown and many members of his administration don't believe in global warming. 

"The Trump administration's decision to overturn this is a disaster for taxpayers and the environment," said Eli Lehrer, president of the libertarian think tank R Street Institute.  "There's obviously legitimate things to be done to speed up infrastructure, but saying that we're not going to pay attention to flood risks is not the way to do it," Lehrer told the Huffington Post.  "And while it's possible more infrastructure will be built, it is also quite likely that a lot of what is built will be destroyed in relatively short order.  So this does no good for anybody."

Some Republican members of Congress - mostly from inland districts - cheered Trump's decision.  But Republicans from sea level areas that are already underwater foresee disaster.

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"When you're on the front lines like South Florida, we know the importance of having more resilient building codes to protect our infrastructure, especially when taxpayer dollars are used," said Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who represents a district including the Florida Keys and the Everglades - areas that will cease to exist as the ocean level rises.  "This Executive Order is not fiscally conservative, it's irresponsible, and it will lead to taxpayer dollars being wasted on projects that may not be built to endure the flooding we are already seeing and know is only going to get worse."