I am almost glad that Lee Zeldin lost his bid for New York governor. He would have in the impossible position to get the radical leftists in the legislature to pass any of his bills. But, as the new EPA chief, he can accomplish much, and his incredible talent will not be wasted. One of the first things he did was to warn EPA employees against trying to sabotage the Trump administration. All they have to do i to look at that the firings over the last couple of weeks couple of weeks to know this is no idle threat.
Zeldin, who was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday by a 56-42 vote says he is looking forward to working with the current employees, but if they insist on resisting the Trump initiatives, they should find work elsewhere.
Zeldin said:
“I think there’s going to be a headcount reduction in agencies all across the federal government. For us, we have to closely monitor who is deciding to stay and who’s deciding to go, and make sure that we’re filling all of our most important positions with urgency if any vacancies are created. Quite frankly, I’d want anyone who is currently working at the EPA to view their job as essential and important. That sense of pride in their job is something that will increase their productivity and it’ll enhance the agency, and will make the American public proud. We want to be able to work with all of the talented career staff here in the building.”
“I don’t believe that anyone should be here at EPA who is not committed to the agency, mission and the lawful directives coming from the duly-elected President of the United States.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThe EPA was a hotbed of bureaucratic resistance during the first Trump administration, with prominent agency employees delaying and undermining some of Trump’s policy priorities while others used encrypted messaging apps to communicate discreetly with each other about efforts to impede the Trump agenda, for example.
Zeldin will have his work cut out for him at EPA, an agency that the Biden administration used to route huge sums of cash to left-wing activists and Democrat Party insiders, enact a de facto “electric vehicle (EV) mandate” and crack down on fossil fuel-fired power plants. Among other campaign promises, Trump has promised or already moved to essentially cancel the Biden administration’s spending on green energy subsidies, scrap the regulations that force EVs on consumers and re-evaluate the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding that determined greenhouse gases to be dangerous for public health.
