Trump reversed flooding regulations days before Hurricane Harvey
Ten days before Hurricane Harvey descended upon Texas on Friday  wreaking havoc and causing widespread flooding   President Donald Trump  signed an executive order revoking a set of regulations that would have made federally funded infrastructure less vulnerable to flooding.
But because of  Trump 's rollback of President Barack Obama's Federal Flood Risk Management Standard  experts across the political spectrum say much of the federal money sent to Texas is likely to be wasted on construction that will insufficiently protect against the next storm.
Lehrer called  Trump 's decision to revoke the standards "the biggest step backwards that has ever been taken in flood-management policy" and said the move would waste taxpayer money  harm the environment  and cost lives.
He and others argue that Trump's decision was a politically motivated attempt to undo Obama's climate-change legacy.
And while Trump justified the rollback as part of an attempt to streamline and speed up construction projects  Lehrer said the regulations' effect on the construction process would have been largely "subtle and inexpensive" and that an insignificant number of projects would have been abandoned because of increased costs.
Ten days before Hurricane Harvey descended upon Texas on Friday  wreaking havoc and causing widespread flooding    [TGT] signed an executive order revoking a set of regulations that would have made federally funded infrastructure less vulnerable to flooding.
But because of  Trump 's rollback of President Barack Obama's Federal Flood Risk Management Standard  experts across the political spectrum say much of the federal money sent to Texas is likely to be wasted on construction that will insufficiently protect against the next storm.
Lehrer called   [TGT]  's decision to revoke the standards "the biggest step backwards that has ever been taken in flood-management policy" and said the move would waste taxpayer money  harm the environment  and cost lives.
He and others argue that  [TGT] 's decision was a politically motivated attempt to undo Obama's climate-change legacy.
And while  [TGT]  justified the rollback as part of an attempt to streamline and speed up construction projects  Lehrer said the regulations' effect on the construction process would have been largely "subtle and inexpensive" and that an insignificant number of projects would have been abandoned because of increased costs.