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President Trump is brushing aside the federal government's National Climate Assessment, which found that climate change could do immeasurable harm to the United States.

The report, released on Friday, states that global warming is a threat to everything — the country's security, economy, natural resources, and infrastructure, as well as the health of Americans. Trump's not concerned about any of this, he told The Washington Post on Tuesday.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.