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Estep and Haley Norris, a policy analyst for LGBTQI+ Policy at CAP, also noted that the Trump administration’s efforts to defund agencies tasked with enforcing existing nondiscrimination laws would likely exacerbate these existing inequalities.
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Josie Cox, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
More Win McNamee/Getty Images When public support for Trump's effort to illegally defund government agencies through DOGE fell underwater at the end of his first 100 days, the president tried to part ways with Elon Musk and pivot to his legislative agenda in Congress.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
In 2017, while a member of the Chula Vista City Council, McCann voted against an effort to have the city join a legal challenge to Trump’s efforts to defund sanctuary cities.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
Trump signed an executive order recognizing only two genders, has tried to ban transgender troops from the military, has refused requests to change the gender of passports and has tried to defund gender-affirming medical care.
—Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 21 June 2025
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Josie Cox, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
More Win McNamee/Getty Images When public support for Trump's effort to illegally defund government agencies through DOGE fell underwater at the end of his first 100 days, the president tried to part ways with Elon Musk and pivot to his legislative agenda in Congress.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
In 2017, while a member of the Chula Vista City Council, McCann voted against an effort to have the city join a legal challenge to Trump’s efforts to defund sanctuary cities.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
Trump signed an executive order recognizing only two genders, has tried to ban transgender troops from the military, has refused requests to change the gender of passports and has tried to defund gender-affirming medical care.
—Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 21 June 2025
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On Broadway, Thompson received a Tony nomination for his performance in August Wilson’s Jitney.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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The researchers looked at just over 1,000 children who received the DTP vaccine in the early 1980s.—
Gabrielle Emanuel,
NPR,
1 July 2025
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Many scenes in the film are spoken in the local language and the village, as well as the mountainous, rugged landscape that surrounds it, are portrayed as subsisting at the edge between wilderness and civilization.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
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From here on out, Cam is pretty much tripping balls every day for the rest of his life, subsisting for the first few weeks on a bulk purchase from Lump.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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