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.
Of which....8,0000 will become former employees....
It’s not like the EPA always existed. And it was years before its head became a Cabinet position.
End run around them: Shut It Down.
Reduction in Force coming to an EPA office near you.
Sounds like an agency that needs to be inactivated, with a review of any essential functions it performs transferred to another agency
You work against your boss, you better update your resume....
There are probably a lot of restrictions on firing them but I’m guessing that there are a lot of small windowless rooms where they can sit, hopefully without a computer. Phones to be checked at the entrance to the building. Or send them all the Guam and wait for the island to tip over.
WHAT? You mean the founding fathers didn’t start the epa? Dang. Who knew? LOL!
HA! Riiiiiiight.
And should they hesitate to follow his orders, fire them. President Trump should ask Congress for free hand to fire anyone and everyone working in the government. Make the government Right-to-Work. Then, his administration can clean house.
Roll EPA and Interior and Energy into Homeland Security. And by roll into I mean eliminate.
Shut it down and fire every employee down to janitor.
Your FIRED!
The EPA outlived it’s usefulness the day it was created...
Also, let's primary these guys into retirement.
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.
There 16K folks who should be in jail for the crimes they’ve committed against their fellow citizens. They are anti-America.
Only 15,999 as my niece currently works at EPA in Washington DC and she is conservative,. Very quiet but conservative. That's how she tolerated it.
Howland Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howland_Island
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