STATEMENT | We’re Entering Unprecedented Territory With This Shutdown
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Tim Whitehouse | October 1, 2025
This shutdown is not just a budget standoff – it’s being weaponized to consolidate power in the Executive Branch at the direct expense of the American people ...
STATEMENT | Trump Administration’s Most Recent Threat to Conduct Mass Firings Moves Us Further into a Lawless State
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Tim Whitehouse | September 25, 2025
In response to the Trump Administration’s threat to conduct mass firings of government employees if there is a government shutdown, PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse issued the following statement ...
COMMENTARY | Commercial Space Activities and the Elimination of Science at NOAA
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Tim Whitehouse | August 5, 2025
The Trump Administration is doing everything in its power to limit or eliminate science-based oversight of industry activities and is using the threat of "pocket rescissions" to prevent harm to favored industries ...
STATEMENT | EPA Shuts Down Its Scientific Research Office
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Tim Whitehouse | July 21, 2025
Eliminating the Office of Research and Development Harms All Americans ...
COMMENTARY | Trump’s Attack on Science Will Leave Us All Sicker
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Tim Whitehouse | June 23, 2025
The Trump administration’s evisceration of the federal agencies that protect our health and environment is a full-throttled attack on science that will set our nation back for years, if not decades to come ...