This is just like what happened over at the State Department.
State bureaucrats/insiders thought they owned the place and they would tell Trump what he was going to do. He went around them on North Korea, on Iran, had peace breaking out all over the Middle East.
I have had first hand dealings right inside EPA HQ. If there is any science in the EPA, it is political science. Over decades, the political left has vetted and staffed the place with leftist “scientists” to carry out a leftist agenda. It’s all interconnected. I am wondering if some of the whiners now “coming clean” about the “big bad anti-science Trump” are really trying to save their careers because their new masters are seeing some things that “need to be punished” for not obstructing and sabotaging Trump ... like that fake military man Vindman.
“Over decades, the political left has vetted and staffed the place with leftist “scientists” to carry out a leftist agenda.”
That went on steroids with Obama. Especially after he got elected for a second time. I drank myself out of it that election night, mourning the loss of our once-great America.