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President Donald Trump is waging a war on your fridgein more ways than one. And hes doing so with strong voter opposition.
The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly drawing up plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections, shifting the onus of that critical oversight onto state and local officials. The FDA already outsources some of those inspectionsbut not all of them and not in every state. And its not clear how those gaps would be filled if the Trump administration pulls the trigger. As of April, the FDA was disputing reports of the plan.
Either way, voters overwhelmingly hate the idea of the FDA ending its routine food safety inspections, according to a new Civiqs poll conducted for Daily Kos. The poll, fielded May 17-20, finds that 84% of registered voters oppose such a move, including 67% who strongly oppose the move.
That opposition comes from every partisan angle too: 95% of Democrats, 81% of independents, and even 75% of Republicans oppose cessation of FDA food inspections. Just 12% of Republicans support that move.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/27/2323872/-Trump-s-waging-a-war-on-fridges-and-voters-hate-it

Diamond_Dog
(37,124 posts)Eliminating programs that ensure the nations health, safety, economic security, education .. the list goes on and on. Third world here we come.
flvegan
(65,018 posts)Even more were so indifferent to exactly this, they didn't bother to vote at all.
Jack Valentino
(2,122 posts)sinkingfeeling
(55,244 posts)usonian
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BlueSpot
(1,063 posts)This is a war on people. The fridge isn't to blame if the food you put in it was bad already.
Why does the media suck so hard?