NPR targets Trump, Cruz over hurricane Harvey recovery funding
The correspondent did feature four soundbites from R.J. Lehmann of the R Street Institute (which he identified as a “free-market research group”). Lehmann criticized the President for his move, and noted that “being able to reduce or eliminate a risk is much more cost effective than having to respond to it after the fact.” But the expert also took aim at former President Obama: “The Obama executive order was pitched as a climate change adaptation measure, as opposed to simply a risk management measure — made it kind of toxic on the right; and that probably wasn’t the wisest marketing.”
