I hope he’ll cut it another 70% next year, leaving only enough staff to fit in a small room. You don’t need many people to process block grants to the states so they can take care of their own cleanup projects. That was all the EPA was supposed to be involved with, instead of morphing into a huge bureaucracy that made up its own laws to oppress land owners.
Just about everybody knew that downsizing of EPA was coming. The bitter-enders are not prepared, however, for the almost total phase-out of the Federal EPA.
But if not extinguished altogether, and the few remaining functions transferred away to a more appropriate agency, expect it to be re-expanded the day Democrats (or their successors and assigns) get back at the levers of power.