Writer Meakalia Previch-Liu’s opening line to her cover story this week, 3/20/2025, “Library programs at risk of funding cuts” was this, “...following one of President Donald Trump’s latest executive orders aimed at gutting the government and its essential functions.”
I had to read it several times to be sure I read it right: President Trump’s executive orders are aimed at gutting the government and its essential functions.
Perhaps a few words accidentally got cut out of this sentence and the error was not caught before press time, because in fact, President Trump and his administration’s actions are “aimed at gutting WASTE from the government and CUTTING its NON-essential functions.
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