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All this deep slicing-and-dicing was a core feature of Ramaswamy’s campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, in which he promised to abolish the Department of Education and the FBI, gut the Food and Drug Administration, and narrow the Federal Reserve’s mandate.

Equipped with a Republican-controlled Senate, a likely majority-Republican Congress, and a Supreme Court that has shown hostility toward environmental laws and regulations, the potential for a Trump administration to profoundly alter or gut existing polices is considerable.

"You know when you have this horrible gut feeling and a feeling of fear for children as well," she explains.

Trump may gut environmental regulations, but even without them wind and solar are now the cheapest source of new energy in the world, period.

Pfizer and Eli Lilly went down, because Republicans don’t like vaccines and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may now get the chance to gut both public health advances and pharmaceutical profits.