Further, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy is directed to prepare a national strategy to discourage the use of paper straws in non-governmental settings as well.

It's weird, I thought we were on some sort of extreme cost-cutting major to reduce the size of the government, but we're building some sort of policy office to try to convince people what sort of straws they should purchase for themselves or for a business to provide to customers?

And odd a Republican Administration is doing this, isn't this exactly the sort of thing conservatives don't like?

Yes, I know, it's utterly pointless to point out the hypocrisy, but I feel at least someone needs to at least write it down for the record, so here my completely pro forma comment about it.