Posted on 09/10/2018 6:24:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump is keeping a campaign promise to reduce the size of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the agency's recent employment numbers.
On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump spoke about dismantling the EPA, saying, "We are going to get rid of it in almost every form. We’re going to have little tidbits left but we’re going to take a tremendous amount out."
Records show that in the first 18 months of the Trump administration, over 1,600 workers left the EPA and less than 400 were hired. This is an 8 percent decrease in the agency's employment size, the Washington Post reports.
Some agency employees cited Trump as a reason for their departure.
"I felt it was time to leave given the irresponsible, ongoing diminishment of agency resources, which has recklessly endangered our ability to execute our responsibilities as public servants," Ann Williamson, an EPA scientist based out of Seattle told the Post. She had been with the agency for 33 years.
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Nearly every executive department needs to be converted into advisors to the senators and representatives. 3 for each. This allows for vacations, off regular hours work, big jobs. They are only there to help write, review and explain law and proposed law. No more regulations. Federal marshals do the enforcement for federal laws. IRS and EPA agents should not be arresting.
Trump is a hyperbolic guy, but truly much of what the EPA has been doing needs to be subsumed at a state level. That keeps the associated politics closer to the people affected. EPA can still watch over trans-state affairs.
There should be one guy left (or gal).
Their sole purpose would be to turn the lights off.
Not a bad idea... More matters of Federal rule could stand to go through Congress instead of totally getting their own head. Part of our problem is how complex the modern world is. In order to be the first world, we have to do many things that must be kept from going out of control.
Maybe if the EPA had not enormously overstepped their bounds some years ago.....much of this change would not have been necessary. It seemed to me that they had gotten to the point where they were trying to dictate how we had to live. No gov’t. agency needs to be doing that.
‘She had been with the agency 33 years”, and hadn’t accomplished anything meaningful during that time...
3 miles up a pond with a substantial land mass not far from the entrance of my pond and I am Ar 13?? PUHLEEZE1
“I felt it was time to leave given the irresponsible, ongoing diminishment of agency resources, which has recklessly endangered our ability to execute our responsibilities as public servants,” Ann Williamson, an EPA scientist based out of Seattle told the Post. She had been with the agency for 33 years.”
33 years will get her a 100k/per year retirement,plus Cadillac health insurance, she’s probably under 60 years old.
“public servant” my ass.
Ann Williamson leaves little doubt as to her politics!
EPA needs to have it’s name changed and be reduced to about 1,000 employees and with a complete re write of it’s mission. They should have NO enforcement arm.
The 1,000 EPA folks become coordinator’s of policy amongst the 50 states with very limited powers. With direct access to the National Legislature and the Prez that’s enough power for them.
Dem’s and Libs want to blame somebody for losing their precious EPA blame Obama and Hillary for electing Trump and 1,000 other political officials nationwide.
And the harder they tried... The worse mess they made.
The EPA should’ve been shut down after they poisoned the Animas River.
I have said it numerous times: “ Ninety percent of those working for the government at all levels are simply affording themselves the “government welfare system.” Make work jobs doing stuff all of us would be better off ( surely better off financially) if they were left undone. It is political patronage taken to an absurd level. And they made it worse by letting them organize PE unions whose job is to “donate” huge sums of their workers dues money to the RAT Party.
Glad to hear about the EPA, now he needs to completely cut the financial cord with NPR and “Pubic Television!” If he did that, they would be forced to fundraise 90% of the time rather than just 50%!
article wrongly states:
“Back in February, the administration fought to reduce the overall budget of the agency by 25 percent. The current budget is currently around $8 million”
budget is around $8 BILLION, not million.
Getting gasoline formulations down a few (two or three should do it) would be great.
Please, President Trump, overhaul Bureau of Land Management. I beg you.
Good riddance to the commie broad.I know she gets her retirement.i hope she chokes on it.
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If the incompetent people leave the EPA, it will hopefully become a more saner, science-based organization. Some of their policies and “findings” are ridiculous. I should know. I’ve had to deal with them.
Good, grounded science can bring good results. Political/ideological “facts” do not.
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