Guest column | Trump is redistributing wealth upward, putting our environment at risk

'Big Beautiful Bill' l is an economic and climate disaster, according to a Sarasota environmental advocate.

The author, standing on his flooded street in the summer of 2020.

By Brice Claypoole | Special to The Bradenton Journal

On May 22, I despaired at the news that House Republicans had passed Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” When Trump won in November, I’d hoped congressional Republicans might serve as an essential check on his worst impulses — that they…