{"id":70364,"date":"2026-03-30T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/trump-to-revoke-protections-for-endangered-species-in-gulf-of-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:58:08","slug":"trump-to-revoke-protections-for-endangered-species-in-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/trump-to-revoke-protections-for-endangered-species-in-gulf-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President is convening so-called \u2018God squad\u2019 to override provisions of Endangered Species Act for \u2018national security\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/03\/16\/2026-05242\/endangered-species-committee-meeting-announcement\">dispatching<\/a> a so-called \u201cGod squad\u201d of top officials to revoke protections for endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, purportedly to protect national security by expanding oil and gas industry operations.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the administration may kill off dozens of protected species \u2013 from Rice\u2019s whales and whooping cranes to sea turtles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/30\/trump-protections-endangered-species-gulf-of-mexico\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President is convening so-called \u2018God squad\u2019 to override provisions of Endangered Species Act for \u2018national security\u2019 Donald Trump is dispatching a so-called \u201cGod squad\u201d of top officials to revoke protections for endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, purportedly to protect national security by expanding oil and gas industry operations. If successful, the administration may &#8230; <a title=\"Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/trump-to-revoke-protections-for-endangered-species-in-gulf-of-mexico\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}