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WARNING: Trump’s EPA Secretary Will Have ‘16,000 Employees Working Against Him’
Daily Caller ^ | 1/28/17 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 01/29/2017 9:08:37 AM PST by markomalley

When likely EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt walks into his first day at the office, “He’ll have 16,000 employees working against him,” Sen. James Lankford told a large gathering of libertarian donors Saturday evening.

“And I expect a flood of lawsuits over everything he does.”

Pruitt, who has been nominated to lead the EPA by President Donald Trump, is the attorney general of Lankford’s state, Oklahoma. He has faced fierce opposition from the environmentalist left.

Lankford, who chairs the Senate Oversight Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements, was joined on stage by Sens. Mike Lee and Pat Toomey. Their panel, moderated by Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, was during a dinner on day one of Charles and David Koch’s libertarian Seminar Network in Palm Springs, Calif.

Held twice a year, the seminars are a gathering place for the Seminar Network, a large group of wealthy donors interested in libertarian causes. This weekend’s seminar, held in the temperate desert outside of Los Angeles, will be the first since Trump’s election and inauguration. The network spent hundreds of millions on advertising and advocacy for limited-government politicians — namely, Republicans — running for the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, but notably stayed out of the presidential primaries and race. The network is co-chaired by Charles Koch Institute President Brian Hooks and Mark Holden, general counsel for Koch Industries.

Of the three senators, Lankford was the only tepid backer of Trump, saying he would support the nominee and frequently dodging press requests to weigh in on specific incidents. Toomey withheld endorsement of Trump, though didn’t rule it out, and was a frequent critic. On Election Day, he said he was voting for Trump. Lee, who is a close friend of Sen. Ted Cruz and represents Utah’s quieter, more conflict-adverse Mormon Republican electorate, urged Trump to quit in October and declined to endorse him throughout the election. 

Called “A Time to Lead,” the meeting is hosted at the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort and Spa, and is focused on local, grassroots initiatives Americans can take in what Hooks called “the key institutions of society”– “education, community, business and government.” 

There are around 550 individuals included in the “principals” network meeting, which requires at least $100,000 donation to the network. In addition to these invited people, there are approximately 150 staff and speakers, Seminar Network spokesman James David told reporters. There is also a larger press presence than any previous conference has allowed.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: epa; epaoutofcontrol; epasecretary; fifthcolumnists; jameslankford; liberalagenda; pruitt; scottpruitt; shadowgovernment; tds; trump; unelectedbureaucrats
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To: Mariner

I’m trying to get inside the skulls of these leftist .gov employees to figure out why they think they have any power. Are they just bluffing or do all of them suffer delusions of grandeur?


41 posted on 01/29/2017 9:26:49 AM PST by txhurl (Break's over, kids, back to WAR.)
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To: markomalley

They don’t vote R anyway, well, most don’t.

The ones that do will keep loving Trump. Look at the guy detained at the airport yesterday. “What do you think of Trump?”
- “I like him”

LOL


42 posted on 01/29/2017 9:27:15 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Mercat

I think if you just flatten their bandwidth by 80-percent, you’d start to trigger the discontent and flow outward. Take down the ability to connect to Facebook and Twitter, and you’d send the message quickly on the new leadership style.


43 posted on 01/29/2017 9:27:49 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Paine in the Neck

Post of the day!

You win the entire internet!


44 posted on 01/29/2017 9:28:25 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Howland Island “has no economic activity” according to Wiki. In other words, there is no better place for the 16,000! They’ll fit right in.


45 posted on 01/29/2017 9:28:34 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

But government workers aren’t exempt from firing..Only some judges are “lifetime” appointments, aren’t they????


46 posted on 01/29/2017 9:28:35 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: markomalley

Fire all 16,0000 and start over


47 posted on 01/29/2017 9:29:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: markomalley

Gotta say it from eagle eye.. Get to work, or you will be demoted to a position that actually involves touching shit with your hands.


48 posted on 01/29/2017 9:29:37 AM PST by momincombatboots (Pray for Sky, 20, two gunshots to abdomen, college student, hostess, easy prey n transformed US)
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To: markomalley

Block all funding. The libs who steal oxygen at the EPA can dine on their regs.


49 posted on 01/29/2017 9:29:43 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: markomalley
“He’ll have 16,000 employees working against him,”

not once they're all in the unemployment line...
50 posted on 01/29/2017 9:29:48 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: JBW1949

It is far, far easier to make the sun rise in the west tomorrow morning than to fire a government employee.


51 posted on 01/29/2017 9:29:51 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Vaquero
Give them each a stick with a nail on the end and have them patrol the national forests and parks picking up trash. That’ll keep em busy.

I used to underwrite commercial auto insurance for large fleets. When we came across drivers with a long string of accidents and tickets, we could not legally tell the employer to fire them, but our advice was to rescind their driving privileges and give them work sweeping floors, cleaning toilets, etc.--anything to get them off the road and hopefully quit their jobs. ;D

52 posted on 01/29/2017 9:30:16 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: markomalley

Trump should blitz the EPA. Take the former EPA chief and all involved with that toxic river dump to court.
Open up EPA records for the public to see. Dump documents of all the rigged studies any uncomfortable e-mails.
Make the EPA a tiny agency and transfer functions to interior and/other relate to agencies. Eliminating the EPA would take congressional action and it’s not worth the political capital at least right now.


53 posted on 01/29/2017 9:30:23 AM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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To: markomalley

Cut off their pay or fire them. We do not need incompetents.


54 posted on 01/29/2017 9:30:51 AM PST by mulligan
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If he wants to do so, I think Trump would find the way...he is not your usual “professional politician”...


55 posted on 01/29/2017 9:31:13 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Mercat

Lol, Guam.


56 posted on 01/29/2017 9:32:34 AM PST by Rusty0604 (bc)
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To: markomalley

You don’t have to control every federal employee.

You only have to control their pay computer.

Turnabout is fair play.

Every time a federal employee in this organization is supposed to get a step increase, they get a decrease.

It’s a computer glitch! Here, fill out a form. We’ll get it fixed in 8 or 9 years.


57 posted on 01/29/2017 9:33:44 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: markomalley
When likely EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt walks into his first day at the office, “He’ll have 16,000 employees working against him,”

Best solution is to fire half of them before they get to work. Then they will run around all day holding their a$$e$ and wondering what to do.

58 posted on 01/29/2017 9:35:18 AM PST by Rapscallion ( Equal justice is an American principle)
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To: markomalley

Worry not!

I think President Trump knows how to fire under-performing employees. That is a very underestimated skill.


59 posted on 01/29/2017 9:38:08 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: markomalley
Hey EPA...Google "PATCO" and "Reagan". Then STFU.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

60 posted on 01/29/2017 9:39:12 AM PST by wku man (Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
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