House Democrats Criticize Trump’s NIST Appointment, Citing Racist Agenda
House Democrats criticized the Commerce Department for creating a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior position without notice to congressional committees. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appointed Jason Richwine deputy undersecretary of commerce for standards and technology. Richwine published “blog…
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posts for a prominent white supremacist website,” wrote House Science Committee Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas, and Research and Technology Subcommittee Chair Haley Stevens, Michigan. “That Dr. Richwine holds these beliefs and has deliberately built a public profile around them is abhorrent; that he has apparently been rewarded for them by the Trump Administration is a scandal.” Commerce didn’t comment.