Degraded hurricane forecasts. Undetected HIV infections because of reduced testing. Seniors on the phone for hours waiting for Social Security to answer. Children without enough food. And dirtier planes and longer waits for bags at the airport.

Those developments — some calamitous, some merely frustrating — are coming or are already here, a range of Broward elected officials said Friday as they offered their assessments of impacts from a range of policy initiatives and budgetary moves implemented by President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In addition, federal, state and local Democrats warned, the overall direction of the country is alarming. The terms “fascist” and “authoritarian” came up more than once at a “public briefing” convened by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democ

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