Topline Decades of policy failures that the Trump Administration exacerbated resulted in more than 450,000 unnecessary American deaths in 2018, with tens of thousands of additional deaths in other years also attributable to President Donald Trump’s actions, according to a report published Thursday from a commission of health experts convened by the British medical journal The Lancet. Outgoing President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One at the White House in Washington, … [+] D.C., on January 20, 2021. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Key Facts The Lancet launched the commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era in April 2017, tasking the group with chronicling the administration’s actions. The commission’s analysis found that 461,000 fewer Americans would have died in 2018 if the United States’ death rate had been equivalent to those of the other G-7 nations. The 49-page report also concludes that Trump’s “hostility” to environmental regulations (including the rollback of at least 84 separate environment… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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