From deploying the National Guard and slashing homicides by 30% to beautifying the city’s parks and waterways, the Trump administration has been unusually attentive to the nation’s only federal district.
On Tuesday, Trump issued an executive order to defeat a new D.C. foe: “foreign, invasive mosquitoes.”
‘The expanding tick populations in the United States expose Americans, our pets, and our livestock to debilitating and expensive health risks.’
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Trump’s Eliminating Disease-Carrying Pests and Restoring Enjoyment of the Great Outdoors order aims to reduce the capital’s invasive mosquito population by 90% and its tick population by 50% in two years.
The order directs the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the General Services Administration to implement the anti-pest campaign in consultation with the
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