The MAGA movement would like us all to believe that they are making America great again. Cutting off federal funding for medical research to find cancer cures, prevent future pandemics and save lives in general will make us healthier and great.

Cutting off funding for weather detection and forecasting to alert our citizens of potential weather and natural disasters will make us all safer and great.

Removing all the agencies that protect our citizens from scams, fraud and predatory practices that may bankrupt or drive us out of our homes in crushing debt will make us all great. 

Removing much needed services from our most vulnerable citizens and our veterans who served our country will make us all great as well.

Actually, I don’t think any of those drastic actions will make the majority of our citizens anything but poorer, less safe, more fearful of their future, less healthy and living shorter lives.

One has to wonder whose lives will be made better by these MAGA actions. It won’t be the majority of our citizens.

Hal Huestis
Eugene