I don't know why, but a link to a BBC article showed up on my facebook channel today. It concerns the refusal of the WH publicity staff to release a photo taken at the time t signed a joint resolution by Congress that canceled a law created under Obama.
HJ Resolution 40 was signed by President Trump on 28 February last year, weeks after his inauguration.
It repealed an Obama-era rule that would have affected about 75,000 US citizens who are too mentally ill to handle their own disability benefits.
The Obama measure covered those of "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease".
It also ordered the US Social Security Administration, which administers benefits, to add these names to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
That database is used by the FBI to determine who is able to purchase a firearm.
The National Rifle Association, an influential gun lobby, was not the only opponent of the Obama-era gun control measure.
The ACLU, a prominent civil-rights organisation, and mental health advocacy organisations backed the repeal that was signed by Mr Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-c...4Vx4WFBWuq3SruW5Uo5pgVKJ0qKbD26LHvGuRp5VmB6mk
It repealed an Obama-era rule that would have affected about 75,000 US citizens who are too mentally ill to handle their own disability benefits.
The Obama measure covered those of "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease".
It also ordered the US Social Security Administration, which administers benefits, to add these names to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
That database is used by the FBI to determine who is able to purchase a firearm.
The National Rifle Association, an influential gun lobby, was not the only opponent of the Obama-era gun control measure.
The ACLU, a prominent civil-rights organisation, and mental health advocacy organisations backed the repeal that was signed by Mr Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-c...4Vx4WFBWuq3SruW5Uo5pgVKJ0qKbD26LHvGuRp5VmB6mk